Re: Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-04T06:05:45Z

On Tuesday 2009-02-17 09:52, J.A. Magallón wrote:

>Hi all...
>
>Don't know if this is specific for -rc5, I have jumped from 28.4 to 29-rc5.
>In this latest kernel, I can not install 'bonding' module if 'ipv6' is
>disabled to load via modprobe.conf:
>
>install ipv6 /bin/true
>
>Trying bonding gives this dmesg:
>
>bonding: Unknown symbol ndisc_build_skb
>bonding: Unknown symbol in6_dev_finish_destroy
>bonding: Unknown symbol ndisc_send_skb
>bonding: Unknown symbol unregister_inet6addr_notifier
>bonding: Unknown symbol register_inet6addr_notifier
>
>Commenting the line in modprobe.conf makes things smooth again.
>We can not disable ipv6 anymore ?

Well, given ipv6 is now a runtime dependency when compiled
with CONFIG_IPV6={m,y}, it seems about right what you see.
I would not call this a regression.

$ modinfo bonding
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.29-rc6-jen77-rt/kernel/bonding.ko.gz
author: Thomas Davis, tadavis@lbl.gov and many others
description: Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver, v3.5.0
version: 3.5.0
license: GPL
srcversion: 752CFD14F79DC79CF4BFB2E
depends: ipv6
^^^^