From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:15:07 -0800 Message-ID: <499DA1AB.7040903@oracle.com> References: <20090217095232.5da06b9f@werewolf.home> <200902172001.41804.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=2EA=2E_Magall?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F3n=22?= , Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Andrey Borzenkov Return-path: Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com ([148.87.113.125]:32044 "EHLO rgminet13.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752791AbZBSSOx (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:14:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200902172001.41804.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Forward to bonding and netdev >=20 > On 17 of February 2009 11:52:32 J.A. Magall=F3n wrote: >> Hi all... >> >> Don't know if this is specific for -rc5, I have jumped from 28.4 to >> 29-rc5. In this latest kernel, I can not install 'bonding' module if >> 'ipv6' is disabled to load via modprobe.conf: >> >> install ipv6 /bin/true >> >> Trying bonding gives this dmesg: >> >> bonding: Unknown symbol ndisc_build_skb >> bonding: Unknown symbol in6_dev_finish_destroy >> bonding: Unknown symbol ndisc_send_skb >> bonding: Unknown symbol unregister_inet6addr_notifier >> bonding: Unknown symbol register_inet6addr_notifier >> >> Commenting the line in modprobe.conf makes things smooth again. >> We can not disable ipv6 anymore ? >> >=20 > If IPv6 is disable in kernel config bonding loads. But I think it is=20 > regression, it should be possible to disable IPv6 if not required. Just for clarification, is this a run-time (module load-time) error but not a build error? --=20 ~Randy