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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Bonding: fix IPv6 module requirement regression
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 07:20:30 +0300
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Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>,
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	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
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On 4 =D0=BC=D0=B0=D1=80=D1=82=D0=B0 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.=20
> This can be specified in /etc/modprobe.conf (or similar) with
> "options ipv6 disable=3D1".
>

While this is definitely the right approach, it requires completely new=20
infrastructure to disable IPv6 (including resolving update issues). So I=20
guess this is post-2.6.29 material.




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