Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Improvement of Source Address Selection

Hello!

suggest applies both to current code and code after Yoshi's change.

This is wrong, unfortunately. The elimination of ipv6_get_saddr()
was trivial before this patch (because of independance of preferred source
on real destination, only on scope), the corresponding fix was withdrawn
from 2.4 only for sake of this feature, pending as a well-known patch.
Now I see retransmission of practicllay the same patch, which was deferred
for improvement that time.

Citing myself two years younger:

The first priority task is to eliminate address selection function.

Without this odd feature it was easy and, in fact, address selection
patches forced me to withdraw the solution from kernel, because
it makes these hacks much more difficult.

Alexey

   From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
   Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 07:38:09 +0400 (MSD)

   Now I see retransmission of practicllay the same patch, which was deferred
   for improvement that time.

Ok, Yoshi please work Alexey to put source address selection into the
right place and remove ipv6_get_saddr().

Alexey, I still am not clear, this belongs in the output routing logic
right?  You dance in circles talking about this patch, that patch,
but what I cannot decode this into an answer to question of where
source address selection belongs.