Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: default IPV6_SIT to m

Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-05-05T20:17:27Z

On 5/3/26 9:25 PM, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> This basically defaulted to m until recently, since IPV6 defaulted to
> m. Since IPV6 was changed to a boolean with a default of y, IPV6_SIT
> started defaulting to built-in as well. This results in a surprise
> sit0 device by default for defconfig (and defconfig-derived config)
> users at boot. For me, this broke an (admittedly non-robust) script.
> Preserve the behaviour of most configs by avoiding building this
> module, that's probably overall seldom used compared to IPv6 as a
> whole, into the kernel.
>
> Fixes: 309b905deee59 ("ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs")
> Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>

As discussed:

Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>

Thanks!