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

Jay Vosburgh
2009-02-17T20:08:19Z

Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:

>> 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.
>
>This hard dependency was apparently introduced by this commit:
>
>commit 305d552accae6afb859c493ebc7d98ca3371dae2
>Author: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
>Date: Tue Nov 4 17:51:14 2008 -0800
>
> bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover

I'm not really sure how to work around this. If bonding is
compiled with CONFIG_IPV6, then the IPv6 support is compiled in, and
bonding will need the ipv6 module loaded to resolve its symbols.

The simple answer (don't turn on CONFIG_IPV6) isn't really
useful for the common case of distro kernels, which will generally have
CONFIG_IPV6 enabled.

-J

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-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com