On 2 March 2016 at 14:00, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Router Renumbering was never supported, prefix ioctls were deprecated
> back in 2002, nobody uses them anymore out there.  struct in6_prefix
> still uses a few bits from the prefix ioctl code, I've moved those bits
> to nd6.h. The last (pointless) use of struct in6_prefixreq was in
> rtadvd.
>
> SIOCSIFADDR_IN6, SIOCSIFDSTADDR_IN6 and SIOCSIFNETMASK_IN6 were
> introduced as mirrors of their IPv4 counterparts but they never made
> sense in IPv6, where there is no such thing as "the first interface
> address".
>
> I propose to get rid of all that stuff (in two commits).
>
> The diff below caused no fallout in a bulk ports build (thanks
> ajacoutot@).
>
> ok?
>

LGTM, OK mikeb

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