Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:56:55 +0200 | From | Thomas Backlund <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5 |
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Brian Haley skrev: > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >> 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 > > I initially had bonding IPv6 support as a Kconfig option, but it was > decided it would be cleaner if it just got built-in whenever CONFIG_IPV6 > was set like SCTP, with the assumption you might want it. > > Is it a common configuration to not allow a module to load like you're > doing in modprobe.conf? I don't know how hard it would be to rip this
Yep.
> out into it's own bonding_ipv6.ko module, simply turning-off CONFIG_IPV6 > seems better.
That's not an option for distro kernels ...
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