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Message-ID: <20071127150022.61bdff7e@freepuppy.rosehill>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:00:22 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:37:43 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > With my "Enterprise" hat on, I can see where Andi was coming from
> > originally.
>
> For the record my original motivation was to fix the "TCP exports everything
> for ipv6.ko" case cleanly. I later realized that it would be useful for the
> ABI stability issues too, but it was really not my primary motivation.
> This is why I didn't even mention that in the original patch description.
Since ipv6 can never be removed because it references itself, the whole concept
of a modular ipv6 is flawed. Sometime ago a patch was sent to remove the ipv6 module
unload hooks but as I recall Dave rejected it believing the unload code could be
fixed.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
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