From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [TCP] Modular IPv6 support in tcpdiag
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:32:27 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041103203227.GA25279@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041103091609.7f6d5d9c@zqx3.pdx.osdl.net>
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:16:09AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> I wanted to ask why all the work to make tcp_diag a module? If it is
> a module there are more possibilties of user problems. Any utilities
> that expect it would then have to deal with it not being loaded as well
> as the possiblity of building a kernel without it.
The reason is that prior to this if IPv6 was built as a module then
you couldn't have tcp_diag support for IPv6 sockets at all.
You're absolutely right about the potential problems with modules.
However, I did set the default to Y.
We should also have netlink module aliases so that these modules
can be loaded automatically by af_netlink.
Cheers,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-03 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 9:44 [TCP] Modular IPv6 support in tcpdiag Herbert Xu
2004-11-03 11:26 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-11-03 17:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-11-03 20:32 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2004-11-03 20:20 ` David S. Miller
2004-11-03 20:34 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-03 20:29 ` David S. Miller
2004-11-03 20:43 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-03 20:41 ` David S. Miller
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