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From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:28 -0800

> 	Putting the ipv6 bits into a different module might not help,
> either, because the "core" bonding code would still have the call to the
> ipv6 functions.  Unless there's some magic way to somehow know at
> runtime whether or not the ipv6 module is loaded, and only try to
> resolve those symbols if ipv6 is loaded.  That seems complicated.

This is a non-starter, as I described in one of my other replies.