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From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Subject: Re: unloading the ipv6 module
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:43:02 +0100
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David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:22:12 +0100
>
>   
>> I saw in net/ipv6/Kconfig a comment saying
>> "IPv6 as module will cause a CRASH if you try to unload it".
>>
>> If I refer to this comment, that means unloading of ipv6 is not
>> supported (which makes sense), will it be one day supported?
>>     
>
> It's very unlikely to be supported any time soon.
>
> Maybe "one day" as in 5 years from now at the earliest.
>
> It's just such an enormous set of problems to solve to make it work,
> and there are so many more urgent issues to work on.
>   
I was wondering if it would have make sense to remove the unloading 
module code from ipv6 which is big at all and not testable.