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On major distros (Fedora via dracut), IPv6 network stuff happens in initramfs. If that's correct, AFAIK adding IPv6 parsing to cifsroot wouldn't be testable. Please correct me if missed something. If TODO is still considered valid, I would be glad to finish it. Thanks -AK