Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] disallow modular IPv6

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:18:42PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:59:41AM +0200, Adrian Bunk escreveu:
> > It seems modular IPv6 doesn't work 100% reliable, e.g. after looking at 
> > the code it doesn't seem to be a good idea to compile a kernel without 
> > IPv6 support and later build and install IPv6 modules. Is there a great 
> > need for modular IPv6 or is the patch below to disallow modular IPv6 OK?
> 
> Please, don't... We're going in the all modules direction, not the other
> way around, distro (general purpose) kernels would get big bloat in the
> static kernel.

E.g. from include/net/tcp.h:

<--  snip  -->

...
struct tcp_skb_cb {
        union {
                struct inet_skb_parm    h4;
#if defined(CONFIG_IPV6) || defined (CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE)
                struct inet6_skb_parm   h6;
#endif
        } header;       /* For incoming frames          */
...

<--  snip  -->

This is broken since it's legal to compile a module much later than the 
kernel.

If modular IPv6 is allowed, the #if has to be removed, and the struct
will be larger in the case IPv6 is never be used.

> - Arnaldo

cu
Adrian

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