linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module

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Message-Id: <20061006.022635.85990065.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:26:35 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	jmorris@...ei.org
Cc:	joro-lkml@...g.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610051148230.23631@...amei> (at Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:49:38 -0400 (EDT)), James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> says:

> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason why the tunnel driver for IPv6-in-IPv4 is currently
> > compiled into the ipv6 module? This driver is only needed in gateways
> > between different IPv6 networks. On all other hosts with ipv6 enabled it
> > is not required. To have this driver in a seperate module will save
> > memory on those machines.
> > I appended a small and trival patch to 2.6.18 which does exactly this.
> 
> Looks ok to me, although given that users used to get this by default when 
> selecting IPv6, perhaps the default in Kconfig should be y.

Agreed.  And, we could add #ifdef in addrconf.c.

--yoshfuji
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