linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

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Message-ID: <499DA1AB.7040903@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:15:07 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"J.A. Magallón" 
	<jamagallon@....com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> 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.

Just for clarification, is this a run-time (module load-time) error
but not a build error?

-- 
~Randy
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