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From: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>,
	"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@ono.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
	bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in	29-rc5
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:30:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499B3A8F.7070609@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16929.1234904788@death.nxdomain.ibm.com>

Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 	I'm not sure either of those really helps.  Distro kernels are
> built with CONFIG_IPV6 (and would have the CONFIG_BONDING_IPV6_DINGUS
> enabled as well), so the common case users would have it enabled, too.
> 
> 	Putting the ipv6 bits into a different module might not help,
> either, because the "core" bonding code would still have the call to the
> ipv6 functions.  Unless there's some magic way to somehow know at
> runtime whether or not the ipv6 module is loaded, and only try to
> resolve those symbols if ipv6 is loaded.  That seems complicated.

What about aliasing ipv6 to a dummy module "dummy-ipv6-for-bonding" that 
only provide the required symbols and do (close to) nothing ?

Just my two cents.

     Nicolas.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-17 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902131413120.3179@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found] ` <20090217095232.5da06b9f@werewolf.home>
2009-02-17 17:01   ` 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5 Andrey Borzenkov
2009-02-17 18:17     ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-02-17 20:08       ` [Bonding-devel] " Jay Vosburgh
2009-02-17 22:49         ` David Miller
2009-02-17 20:10       ` Brian Haley
2009-02-17 20:56         ` Thomas Backlund
2009-02-17 21:06         ` [Bonding-devel] " Jay Vosburgh
2009-02-17 21:49           ` Brian Haley
2009-02-17 22:24             ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-03-04 11:46               ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-17 22:30           ` Nicolas de Pesloüan [this message]
2009-02-17 22:54           ` David Miller
2009-02-17 22:51         ` David Miller
2009-02-17 22:29     ` David Miller
2009-02-18  4:41       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-02-18  5:29         ` David Miller
2009-02-18  5:55           ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-18 13:55           ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-18 16:24             ` Chuck Lever
2009-02-18 18:33               ` Vlad Yasevich
2009-02-18 19:57                 ` Brian Haley
2009-02-18 21:21                   ` John Dykstra
2009-02-18 21:29                     ` [Bonding-devel] " Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-19 13:32                   ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-18 22:14                 ` David Miller
2009-02-19  1:11                   ` Vlad Yasevich
2009-02-19 13:29             ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-18  6:55         ` Frank Blaschka
2009-02-19 18:15     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-02-19 18:19       ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-02-19 18:20       ` Jay Vosburgh

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