linux-kernel - Re: [Bonding-devel] 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

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Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:54:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fubar@...ibm.com
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, arvidjaar@...l.ru, jamagallon@....com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rjw@...k.pl,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in
 29-rc5

From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:28 -0800

> 	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.

This is a non-starter, as I described in one of my other replies.
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