Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

David Miller
2009-02-17T22:30:22Z

From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:01:38 +0300

> Forward to bonding and netdev
...
> If IPv6 is disable in kernel config bonding loads. But I think it is
> regression, it should be possible to disable IPv6 if not required.

Don't configure ipv6 into your kernel, really.

There is no other way to handle this. If we want to support
IPV6 layer things in the bonding driver, it is going to
call helper functions in the ipv6 module and therefore must
be able to load it and use functions in it.