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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Vladislav Yasevich" <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>,
	"Chuck Lever" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	"J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@ono.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jay Vosburgh" <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Bonding: fix IPv6 module requirement regression
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 07:20:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903040720.34497.arvidjaar@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ADE956.1020702@hp.com>

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On 4 марта 2009 05:37:10 Brian Haley wrote:
> These patches fix the Bonding module's requirement to have the IPv6
> module loaded and configured by creating a new "disable" module
> parameter value for ipv6.ko.  This allows users who do not want any
> IPv6 addresses or sockets to be created to disable IPv6 support,
> while still loading the module and making it's symbols available. 
> This can be specified in /etc/modprobe.conf (or similar) with
> "options ipv6 disable=1".
>

While this is definitely the right approach, it requires completely new 
infrastructure to disable IPv6 (including resolving update issues). So I 
guess this is post-2.6.29 material.




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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-04  2:37 [PATCH 0/2] Bonding: fix IPv6 module requirement regression Brian Haley
2009-03-04  4:20 ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2009-03-04 11:11   ` David Miller

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