Re: 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10

[Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>]

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Felix von Leitner <felix-linuxkernel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Now about IPv6: npush and npoll are two applications I wrote.  npush
> sends multicast announcements and opens a TCP socket.  npoll receives
> the multicast announcement and connects to the source IP/port/scope_id
> of the announcement.  If both are run on the same machine, npoll sees
> the link local address of eth0 as source IP, and the interface number of
> eth0 as scope_id.  So far so good.  Trying to connect() however hangs.
> Since this has been broken in different ways for as long as I can
> remember in Linux, and I keep complaining about it every half a year or
> so.  Can't someone fix this once and for all?  IPv4 checks whether we
> are connecting to our own address and reroutes through loopback, why
> can't IPv6?
>