From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unloading the ipv6 module
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:43:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A69C66.6000005@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090226.052411.77955912.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:22:12 +0100
>
>
>> I saw in net/ipv6/Kconfig a comment saying
>> "IPv6 as module will cause a CRASH if you try to unload it".
>>
>> If I refer to this comment, that means unloading of ipv6 is not
>> supported (which makes sense), will it be one day supported?
>>
>
> It's very unlikely to be supported any time soon.
>
> Maybe "one day" as in 5 years from now at the earliest.
>
> It's just such an enormous set of problems to solve to make it work,
> and there are so many more urgent issues to work on.
>
I was wondering if it would have make sense to remove the unloading
module code from ipv6 which is big at all and not testable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-26 13:22 unloading the ipv6 module Daniel Lezcano
2009-02-26 13:24 ` David Miller
2009-02-26 13:43 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2009-02-26 13:51 ` David Miller
2009-02-26 14:01 ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-02-26 18:09 ` Matti Aarnio
2009-02-26 20:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-27 1:06 ` David Miller
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