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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pstew@chromium.org
Cc: bjorn@mork.no, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] ipv6: Create module parameter for use_tempaddr
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:04:19 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110913.160419.1722808201908218942.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMcMvshXgKCpwLFPzUWvmacTuqmSEjDfPgvZU2BHeC+WcXRH0A@mail.gmail.com>

From: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:56:28 -0700

> However, I'm not yet willing to accept the claim that ipv6 cannot be
> used as a module unless the rest of the system is painstakingly
> crafted to close any races between addrconf, sysctl and other
> IPv6-using processes.  That strikes me as far too brittle.

Most distributions are moving to building ipv6 statically into the
kernel, largely because of the issues described here.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-13 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-01  6:03 [PATCH] ipv6: Create module parameter for use_tempaddr Paul Stewart
2011-09-06 23:56 ` Paul Stewart
2011-09-12 16:37   ` Paul Stewart
2011-09-12 19:51     ` Brian Haley
2011-09-01  6:03       ` [PATCHv2] " Paul Stewart
2011-09-13 18:39         ` Bjørn Mork
2011-09-13 19:56           ` Paul Stewart
2011-09-13 20:04             ` David Miller [this message]
2011-09-12 21:21       ` [PATCH] " Paul Stewart

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