From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: Make IPv6 packet parsing dependent on IPv6 config Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:53:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20121116.135341.453792886356015492.davem@davemloft.net> References: <50A67B44.9040508@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: vyasevic@redhat.com, dev@openvswitch.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com To: jesse@nicira.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:58750 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752936Ab2KPSxn (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:53:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jesse Gross Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:46:17 -0800 > I guess the simplest thing to do seems to just make Open vSwitch > depend on CONFIG_INET seeing as it is practically useless without > upper layer protocol support anyways. The reason we have the ipv6 extension header parsing in a seperate, always compiled statically into the kernel, module is exactly for situations like this. We need to think seriously if we want to go down this road of only using INET as protection for every module that has some kind of ipv6 component to it.