netdev - Re: [PATCHv2] ipv6: Create module parameter for use

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Date:	Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:04:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pstew@...omium.org
Cc:	bjorn@...k.no, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] ipv6: Create module parameter for use_tempaddr

From: Paul Stewart <pstew@...omium.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:56:28 -0700

> However, I'm not yet willing to accept the claim that ipv6 cannot be
> used as a module unless the rest of the system is painstakingly
> crafted to close any races between addrconf, sysctl and other
> IPv6-using processes.  That strikes me as far too brittle.

Most distributions are moving to building ipv6 statically into the
kernel, largely because of the issues described here.
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