netdev - 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

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Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:01:38 +0300
From:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:	"J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@....com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

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.

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