From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v5 0/5] vxlan: add ipv6 support Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:51:09 -0700 Message-ID: <20130422235109.296696a4@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <1366554192-27887-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> <20130422.160834.1941810644323096368.davem@davemloft.net> <1366687841.21136.6.camel@cr0> <1366698455.21136.11.camel@cr0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Cong Wang Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com ([209.85.192.172]:34242 "EHLO mail-pd0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753749Ab3DWGvN (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:51:13 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f172.google.com with SMTP id 4so234144pdd.17 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:51:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1366698455.21136.11.camel@cr0> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:27:35 +0800 Cong Wang wrote: > After several tries, I think it is not easy to do at all, it relies on > some icmp functions at least, which are still compiled as a module. So, > I can't think out any easier solution than simply adding Kconfig > dependency. Why is IPv6 support depending on ICMP functions? Everything doesn't have to be hyper optimized, at least not initially.