Re: [PATCH] anycast support for IPv6, updated to 2.5.44

In article [ref] (at Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:31:05 -0800 (PST)), "David S. Miller" [off-list ref] says:

   From: "David Stevens" [off-list ref]
   Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:06:00 -0700
   
   Below is a patch to add anycast support for IPv6. It's the same patch as
   I've posted previously, but updated with comments from Chris Hellwig and
   for kernel version 2.5.44.

I'm going to apply this, with the small change that dev_getany() is
renamed to dev_get_by_flags() which more accurately describes
what the routine does.

Again: I don't like API at all.

Anycast address management itself in that patch would be ok.
However, JOIN/LEAVE is NOT useful and userland application will be 
incompatible with other implementation. (sigh...)
I think linux likes unicast model (assign address like unicast address), too.

And, we see __constant_{hton,ntoh}{l,h}() again...

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