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Extract the IPv6 address retrieval logic from netpoll_setup() into a dedicated helper function netpoll_take_ipv6() to improve code organization and readability. The function handles obtaining the local IPv6 address from the network device, including proper address type matching between local and remote addresses (link-local vs global), and includes appropriate error handling when IPv6 is not supported or no suitable address is available. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250618-netpoll_ip_ref-v1-3-c2ac00fe558f@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.