From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
To: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Ricardo B . Marlière" <rbm@suse.com>,
"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: default IPV6_SIT to m
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 22:17:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8064df33-daa4-430d-ac0c-3cbf2911f98a@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260503192515.290900-2-hi@alyssa.is>
On 5/3/26 9:25 PM, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> This basically defaulted to m until recently, since IPV6 defaulted to
> m. Since IPV6 was changed to a boolean with a default of y, IPV6_SIT
> started defaulting to built-in as well. This results in a surprise
> sit0 device by default for defconfig (and defconfig-derived config)
> users at boot. For me, this broke an (admittedly non-robust) script.
> Preserve the behaviour of most configs by avoiding building this
> module, that's probably overall seldom used compared to IPv6 as a
> whole, into the kernel.
>
> Fixes: 309b905deee59 ("ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs")
> Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
As discussed:
Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-05 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-03 19:25 [PATCH v2] ipv6: default IPV6_SIT to m Alyssa Ross
2026-05-04 10:30 ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-05-04 14:30 ` Alyssa Ross
2026-05-04 15:01 ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-05-05 0:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-05 20:16 ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-05-05 20:17 ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera [this message]
2026-05-06 0:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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