From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip_gre: CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE support Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100929.010056.115931816.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100929.002544.183044247.davem@davemloft.net> <1285746352.2615.11.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20100929075758.GA5188@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54473 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752160Ab0I2IAg (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:00:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100929075758.GA5188@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Herbert Xu 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.