Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Autoconfig link-local address on ip6-ip6 tunnel device

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Hi Dave, Yoshifuji-san is now ok with this patch :) Would you apply it?
> 
> I thought some more about this and I am realizing this is not
> a pure bug fix, I am very sure Linus will not take the change.
> 
> We can hold onto this until 2.6.1, ok?

Another perspective:

Well, the specs say very strongly that all interfaces MUST have
lik-local addresses, so it's a pretty big bug,
implementation-of-the-spec -wise.

However, it's probably not a bug in the current code, though.

But I'm personally fine with waiting..

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