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From: "Robin Jarry" <rjarry@redhat.com>
To: "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, "Christophe Fontaine" <cfontain@redhat.com>,
	stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH dpdk] net: ipv6 link local compliance with rfc 4291
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:57:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DE9GOA1Z26VT.1SI0QQLH40U1J@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251114090341.589bcbd6@phoenix>

Stephen Hemminger, Nov 14, 2025 at 18:03:
> Yes, this code is in first git commit 2.6.12 from 2005 it is possible
> (but not worth the effort) to find it in earlier repos.

I finally found the original discussion on the netdev mailing list:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20050116115431.GA13617@lst.de/

And the commit that introduced this quirk:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=b74ac55d38c7181d1f1c1c3c7068b1693c7adb0f

-- 
Robin

> Post no bills.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-15 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-14 10:57 Robin Jarry
2025-11-14 16:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2025-11-14 16:08   ` Robin Jarry
2025-11-14 16:14   ` Morten Brørup
2025-11-14 16:46     ` Robin Jarry
2025-11-14 17:03       ` Stephen Hemminger
2025-11-15 17:57         ` Robin Jarry [this message]
2025-11-14 16:48     ` Stephen Hemminger
2025-11-14 16:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2025-11-18 17:45 ` [PATCH dpdk v2] " Robin Jarry

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