Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrey Borzenkov <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5 | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:17:14 +0300 |
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On 17 of February 2009 20:01:38 Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Forward to bonding and netdev > > On 17 of February 2009 11:52:32 J.A. Magallón 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 ? > > If IPv6 is disable in kernel config bonding loads. But I think it is > regression, it should be possible to disable IPv6 if not required.
This hard dependency was apparently introduced by this commit:
commit 305d552accae6afb859c493ebc7d98ca3371dae2 Author: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Date: Tue Nov 4 17:51:14 2008 -0800
bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover
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