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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: randy.dunlap@oracle.com
Cc: netdev@bof.de, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.38-rc8 build failure] net: bridge builtin vs. ipv6 modular
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:49:08 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310.134908.226783215.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110310132801.4a919df2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:28:01 -0800

> This can be fixed in either of 2 ways.  One way is to require that the
> bridge code building depend on how the IPV6 code is built (builtin or modular);
> the other way is to handle the kconfig variations in net/bridge/br_multicast.c --
> but this loses some functionality if IPV6=m and BRIDGE=y.
> 
> I prefer the Kconfig patch over the br_multicast.c patch.
> Both patches are below for consideration.

I definitely prefer the Kconfig variant, although it's unfortunate that we
have a stateful dependency in the bridging multicast code.

IPV4 seems to let us use INADDR_ANY as the source address in the multicast
query, but IPV6 does not allow this (as per RFC 2710).

Anyways, I've applied the Kconfig patch, thanks Randy!

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 10:19 2.6.38-rc8 build failure - bridge vs. ipv6 Patrick Schaaf
2011-03-10 21:28 ` [PATCH 2.6.38-rc8 build failure] net: bridge builtin vs. ipv6 modular Randy Dunlap
2011-03-10 21:49   ` David Miller [this message]

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