From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265309AbUETWvr (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 18:51:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265297AbUETWv2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 18:51:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:22673 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265292AbUETWu5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 18:50:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:50:42 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Jirka Kosina Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pekkas@netcore.fi Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6 can't be built as module additionally Message-Id: <20040520155042.223b05e3.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 May 2004 00:16:06 +0200 (CEST) Jirka Kosina 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 :-)