Why did KAME need ND6_LLINFO_WAITDELETE?

[prabhakar lakhera]

that is more than helpful :)
I myself had a panic because of this state and code in nd6_free because I
added an assert to catch connectivity issue..
Found out that it was long gone from stock BSD and kame.


Thanks for the pointers!!


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:48 PM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 <jinmei at isc.org>wrote:

> At Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:50:30 -0800,
> prabhakar lakhera <prabhakar.lakhera at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I see that* ND6_LLINFO_WAITDELETE *was done away with long time back.
> > I was looking for any historical reasons for why it was needed and what
> > triggered its removal.
>
> I'd normally change history in the original KAME repository:
>
> http://www.kame.net/dev/cvsweb2.cgi/kame/kame/sys/netinet6/nd6.h
> http://www.kame.net/dev/cvsweb2.cgi/kame/kame/sys/netinet6/nd6.c
> (search for "ND6_LLINFO_WAITDELETE")
>
> It looks like it was me who made this change but I don't remember
> details:-) and I don't have time to look into it closer right now.
> If the rationale is still not clear from the logs and specific code
> diffs please ask again.
>
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> JINMEI, Tatuya
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