[ewg] Re: [PATCH] link-local address fix for rdma_resolve_addr

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Wed Oct 14 10:40:17 PDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:30:05AM -0700, David J. Wilder wrote:

> This looks good. Once concern, it may be obtuse, but if both the src and
> dst are link-local addresses should only one need to be scoped?  This
> patch will required the src to always be scoped when using link local.  

The TCPv6 code requires the src to be scoped (or SO_BINDTODEVICE to be
used prior). If src is scoped then it is optional to scope dest, but
if dest is scoped then it must match. I intended to capture that logic..

Can you give a quick test and send a git format-patch/checkpatch'd
patch to Roland, with your signed off line, etc. You can put a
Reviewed-by line from me as well if you like.

Thanks,
Jason



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