From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:06:11 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] libwebsockets: add option to enable/disable ipv6 support In-Reply-To: <0dc07792d2e04be6b1628563695e9e28@LysExc01.nanotronic.local> References: <1443014194-24211-1-git-send-email-andreas.wetzel@nanotronic.ch> <20150923230236.5b5c5302@free-electrons.com> <0dc07792d2e04be6b1628563695e9e28@LysExc01.nanotronic.local> Message-ID: <20150925140611.13ec8719@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Andreas, On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:12:00 +0000, Wetzel Andreas wrote: > Ok, I was not aware that you made IPv6 mandantory. Sorry for that. > > Currently, IPv6 is always enabled for libwebsockets. > In a project we used a kernel without support for IPv6. libwebsockets (with ipv6 support) seem to cause problems if the kernel does not support IPv6 at all. That's why I thought such configuration option would make sense. > > Size is no reason. Including IPv6 support is a matter of a few kilobytes. > > So my resolution is to add IPv6 support to the linux kernel we use to. What is the size difference of the kernel with/without IPv6 enabled? If it's very significant, then maybe we need to revisit this? Gustavo? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com