[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/28] Add link-local addressing support

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 26 January 2012 04:21:21 Stefano Babic wrote:
> On 26/01/2012 00:40, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> >> I have a basic question about your patchset. RFC3927 requires that
> >> addresses are continuosly checked to avoid conflicts - this is a strict
> >> requirement.
> > 
> > True.  It cannot be 100% compliant in every use-case.
> 
> It is important that these limitations are well documented
> 
> > Any time we are processing NetLoop, we will handle conflict correctly.
> 
> Yes, but NetLoop is running only when there some activity on the network.

isn't that the only time that matters ?  if we're sitting at the command 
prompt, then u-boot has the network pretty much shut off (doesn't respond to 
ARP let alone anything higher).  as soon as we try to do network 
communication, we are compliant again.
-mike
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