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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Jirka Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pekkas@netcore.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6 can't be built as module additionally
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:50:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040520155042.223b05e3.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405210007240.25914@twin.jikos.cz>

On Fri, 21 May 2004 00:16:06 +0200 (CEST)
Jirka Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> wrote:

> This is because ipv6-specific functions in drivers/char/random.c 
> are inside #ifdefs, and as random.c is almost always built directly into 
> kernel, recompilation of whole kernel can't be avoided.

This is the smallest problem, several main kernel data structures
change size based upon whether ipv6 has been enabled in any way
or not.

So even with your patch, compiling ipv6 outside of the kernel will
still not work even though it might build.

This has been discussed to death in the past I do believe :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-20 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-20 22:16 [PATCH] IPv6 can't be built as module additionally Jirka Kosina
2004-05-20 22:50 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-05-20 23:30   ` Andy Isaacson
2004-05-20 23:37     ` David S. Miller
2004-05-21 23:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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