linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mptcp: MPTCP_IPV6 should depend on IPV6 instead of selecting it

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Date:   Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:26:34 +0200
From:   Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Peter Krystad <peter.krystad@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mptcp@...ts.01.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mptcp: MPTCP_IPV6 should depend on IPV6 instead of
 selecting it

Hi Geert,

Thank you for the patch!

On 20/10/2020 09:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> MPTCP_IPV6 selects IPV6, thus enabling an optional feature the user may
> not want to enable.  Fix this by making MPTCP_IPV6 depend on IPV6, like
> is done for all other IPv6 features.

Here again, the intension was to select IPv6 from MPTCP but I understand 
the issue: if we enable MPTCP, we will select IPV6 as well by default. 
Maybe not what we want on some embedded devices with very limited memory 
where IPV6 is already off. We should instead enable MPTCP_IPV6 only if 
IPV6=y. LGTM then!

Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>

Cheers,
Matt
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