linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iptables: "cluster" match uses IPv6-specific code without ifdef

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Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:50:16 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
CC:	Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iptables: "cluster" match uses IPv6-specific code without
 ifdef

Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> Steven Noonan wrote:
>>>> The symbol __ipv6_addr_type is only available with CONFIG_IPV6 or
>>>> CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE.
>>> Please, CC netfilter-devel for netfilter-related issues. Patrick, I'm
>>> fine with this, can you apply this patch?
>> Is my reading correct that this won't introduce a module
>> dependency on IPv6?
> 
> Hm, this fixes a compilation issue when IPv6 is not enabled. In that
> case you can still use the cluster match, so I don't see any extra
> modules dependencies.

That was badly phrased, sorry. The patch of course doesn't change
anything in that regard.

I'm wondering whether we have a (runtime) dependency on the ipv6
module due to the ipv6_addr_type() call. If that's the case, it
would need to be fixed as well.
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