From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip_gre: CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE support
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:00:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100929.010056.115931816.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100929075758.GA5188@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:57:58 +0900
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:45:52AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> .
>> > > install ipv6 /bin/true
>> > >
>> > > or
>> > >
>> > > options ipv6 disable=1
>> >
>> > If you set the disable option, it should do the right thing. Since
>> > the ipv6 symbols will be available, yet the ipv6 stack won't by
>> > default bring up ipv6 addresses onto interfaces etc.
>>
>> I must miss something obvious.
>>
>> David, with your patch, I cant :
>>
>> install ipv6 /bin/true
>> modprobe ip_gre
>
> Does it work if you use
>
> options ipv6 disable=1
>
> If so then that's what should be used in this case.
That's what one should use "always" :-)
Bonding has the same issue, and it's why we added the
disable module option, so that the /bin/true stupidity
could stop.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 13:01 [PATCH] ip_gre: CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE support Eric Dumazet
2010-09-20 17:06 ` David Miller
2010-09-28 8:41 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-28 8:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 4:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 4:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 4:36 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-29 4:41 ` David Miller
2010-09-29 5:38 ` David Miller
2010-09-29 6:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 7:25 ` David Miller
2010-09-29 7:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 7:57 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-29 8:00 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-29 8:03 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-29 8:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 7:59 ` David Miller
2010-09-29 6:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 7:11 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-29 7:26 ` David Miller
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