From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] disallow modular IPv6 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:18:42 -0300 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030928231842.GE1039@conectiva.com.br> References: <20030928225941.GW15338@fs.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@redhat.com, pekkas@netcore.fi, lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Adrian Bunk Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030928225941.GW15338@fs.tum.de> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Em Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:59:41AM +0200, Adrian Bunk escreveu: > It seems modular IPv6 doesn't work 100% reliable, e.g. after looking at > the code it doesn't seem to be a good idea to compile a kernel without > IPv6 support and later build and install IPv6 modules. Is there a great > need for modular IPv6 or is the patch below to disallow modular IPv6 OK? Please, don't... We're going in the all modules direction, not the other way around, distro (general purpose) kernels would get big bloat in the static kernel. - Arnaldo