From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754572AbZBQSRx (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:17:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752270AbZBQSRl (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:17:41 -0500 Received: from mx71.mail.ru ([94.100.176.85]:53591 "EHLO mx71.mail.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753828AbZBQSRk (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:17:40 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 4548 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:17:40 EST From: Andrey Borzenkov To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , brian.haley@hp.com Subject: Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:17:14 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.29-rc5-1avb; KDE/4.2.0; i686; ; ) Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "J.A. =?iso-8859-1?q?Magall=F3n?=" , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20090217095232.5da06b9f@werewolf.home> <200902172001.41804.arvidjaar@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <200902172001.41804.arvidjaar@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1808985.XiPzYbKinC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200902172117.22671.arvidjaar@mail.ru> X-Spam: Not detected X-Mras: Ok Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1808985.XiPzYbKinC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 17 of February 2009 20:01:38 Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Forward to bonding and netdev > > On 17 of February 2009 11:52:32 J.A. Magall=F3n wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > Don't know if this is specific for -rc5, I have jumped from 28.4 to > > 29-rc5. In this latest kernel, I can not install 'bonding' module > > if 'ipv6' is disabled to load via modprobe.conf: > > > > install ipv6 /bin/true > > > > Trying bonding gives this dmesg: > > > > bonding: Unknown symbol ndisc_build_skb > > bonding: Unknown symbol in6_dev_finish_destroy > > bonding: Unknown symbol ndisc_send_skb > > bonding: Unknown symbol unregister_inet6addr_notifier > > bonding: Unknown symbol register_inet6addr_notifier > > > > Commenting the line in modprobe.conf makes things smooth again. > > We can not disable ipv6 anymore ? > > If IPv6 is disable in kernel config bonding loads. But I think it is > regression, it should be possible to disable IPv6 if not required. This hard dependency was apparently introduced by this commit: commit 305d552accae6afb859c493ebc7d98ca3371dae2 Author: Brian Haley Date: Tue Nov 4 17:51:14 2008 -0800 bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover --nextPart1808985.XiPzYbKinC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkma/zIACgkQR6LMutpd94yilwCcCJeMWWKANMNNS99Kxs5EnTsH 5q8AnRbFac9FhrOpSq4pYz/wygBP1nlT =9Ddh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1808985.XiPzYbKinC--