Re: About MLDv2 specification

[Takashi Hibi <hibi665@xxxxxxx>]

David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx> :

> Takashi,
>         I believe your patch will work in suppressing empty
> MODE_IS_INCLUDE, but in the event the report for an empty
> MODE_IS_INCLUDE is the only record, it'll still go through the
> timer for all the retransmits. I want to see how hard it'd be not
> to start the report timer at all for this case, and also make sure
> any other changes are taken care of. The patch looks ok to me
> for the interim, though.
> 
>                                         +-DLS
> 

mld_send_cr() is called for retransmission of the report, but 
MODE_IS_INCLUDE is never used in this function. 
MODE_IS_INCLUDE is only used in mld_send_report(), and it is called
for the response to MLDv2 query.

Therefore no side effects occur, I think.

Regards,
Takashi Hibi