Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:59:53 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module |
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:49:38AM -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > > Is there a reason why the tunnel driver for IPv6-in-IPv4 is currently > > compiled into the ipv6 module? This driver is only needed in gateways > > between different IPv6 networks. On all other hosts with ipv6 enabled it > > is not required. To have this driver in a seperate module will save > > memory on those machines. > > I appended a small and trival patch to 2.6.18 which does exactly this. > > Looks ok to me, although given that users used to get this by default when > selecting IPv6, perhaps the default in Kconfig should be y.
Ok, a good point to write y there. I change this. I wrote n there because of the "If unsure, say N" sentence in the description.
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