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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] ipv6: Create module parameter for use_tempaddr
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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.