Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:30:39 +0100 | From | Nicolas de Pesloüan <> | Subject | Re: [Bonding-devel] 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5 |
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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.
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