From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/4] net: enables interface option to skip IP Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:02:18 -0600 Message-ID: <1392858138.22693.21.camel@dcbw.local> References: <1392433180-16052-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1392433180-16052-3-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1392668638.21106.5.camel@dcbw.local> <1392828325.21976.6.camel@dcbw.local> <1392857777.22693.14.camel@dcbw.local> <20140220005833.GF1179@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Zoltan Kiss , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "David S. Miller" , Alexey Kuznetsov , James Morris , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Patrick McHardy To: Hannes Frederic Sowa Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140220005833.GF1179@order.stressinduktion.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 01:58 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 06:56:17PM -0600, Dan Williams wrote: > > Note that there isn't yet a disable_ipv4 knob though, I was > > perhaps-too-subtly trying to get you to send a patch for it, since I can > > use it too :) > > Do you plan to implement > ? > > ;) Well, not specifically, but with NetworkManager we do have a "disable IPv4" method for IPv4, which now just doesn't do any kind of IPv4, but obviously doesn't disable IPv4 entirely because that's not possible. I was only thinking that it would be nice to actually guarantee that IPv4 was disabled, just like disable_ipv6 does. But we could certainly implement that draft if a patch shows up or if it bubbled up the priority stack :) Dan