netdev - Re: [Patch net-next] ipv6: separate out procfs code from mcast.c

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Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:30:20 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] ipv6: separate out procfs code from mcast.c

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 03:18 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:15:02 +0800
> 
> > On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 03:11 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:07:00 +0800
> >> 
> >> > From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> >> > 
> >> > They well deserve a separated unit.
> >> > 
> >> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> >> > Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org> 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> >> 
> >> Cong, I'm not even reading these patches.
> >> 
> >> You're on this idea that you can just keep the sysfs and procfs bits
> >> of ipv6 modular, and make the rest of ipv6 statically linked into the
> >> kernel.
> > 
> > I am trying that only for mcast.c, not for the whole IPv6.
> 
> The multicast stuff does route lookups, how are you going to
> accomplish this?

This is hard to do, as in the email I replied to Stephen. So I prefer to
just add a Kconfig dependency, at least for now.

> 
> Besides you should move the statically-needed code into a new
> file (mcast_core.c or something like that, following the existing
> model and conventions for doing this) rather than the other way
> around.

Yes, this is half-done and is also why I sent it alone rather than in
the VXLAN series.

Thanks.

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