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.
next prev parent 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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