Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758027AbYALFMc (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:12:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750783AbYALFMU (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:12:20 -0500 Received: from yue.linux-ipv6.org ([203.178.140.15]:34812 "EHLO yue.st-paulia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbYALFMT (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:12:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:12:24 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20080112.141224.06844600.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, vaf@cisco.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] ipv4: enable use of 240/4 address space From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= In-Reply-To: <20080111.174857.258424243.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080111.214120.129309556.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <20080111.174857.258424243.davem@davemloft.net> Organization: USAGI/WIDE Project X-URL: http://www.yoshifuji.org/%7Ehideaki/ X-Fingerprint: 9022 65EB 1ECF 3AD1 0BDF 80D8 4807 F894 E062 0EEA X-PGP-Key-URL: http://www.yoshifuji.org/%7Ehideaki/hideaki@yoshifuji.org.asc X-Face: "5$Al-.M>NJ%a'@hhZdQm:."qn~PA^gq4o*>iCFToq*bAi#4FRtx}enhuQKz7fNqQz\BYU] $~O_5m-9'}MIs`XGwIEscw;e5b>n"B_?j/AkL~i/MEaZBLP X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.1 (AOI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1355 Lines: 40 In article <20080111.174857.258424243.davem@davemloft.net> (at Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:48:57 -0800 (PST)), David Miller says: > From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:41:20 +0900 (JST) > > > There is no positive consesus on this draft > > at the intarea meeting in Vancouver, right? > > > > We cannot / should not enable that space until we have reached > > a consensus on it. > > This is so incredibly incorrect. > > There is consensus on making network stacks able to use this > address space. And that is all that the patch does. No, we did never make consensus on it. > The consensus is only missing on whether to make the address > space public or private. > > This is also clearly spelled out in the draft. > > It is important to get as large of a head start on this as > possible because of how long it takes to deploy something > like this. Okay, though I am afraid this space will not be used widely, we should be ready for it. I'll make some more comments on the patch itself from another point view. --yoshfuji -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/