From: Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@zlug.org>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:59:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061005155953.GB2102@zlug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610051148230.23631@d.namei>
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:49:38AM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
> > Is there a reason why the tunnel driver for IPv6-in-IPv4 is currently
> > compiled into the ipv6 module? This driver is only needed in gateways
> > between different IPv6 networks. On all other hosts with ipv6 enabled it
> > is not required. To have this driver in a seperate module will save
> > memory on those machines.
> > I appended a small and trival patch to 2.6.18 which does exactly this.
>
> Looks ok to me, although given that users used to get this by default when
> selecting IPv6, perhaps the default in Kconfig should be y.
Ok, a good point to write y there. I change this. I wrote n there
because of the "If unsure, say N" sentence in the description.
Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-05 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 15:41 [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module Joerg Roedel
2006-10-05 15:49 ` James Morris
2006-10-05 15:59 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2006-10-05 17:26 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
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