linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.9 580/757] selftests: mptcp: depends on built-in IPv6

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Date:   Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:09:33 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.9 580/757] selftests: mptcp: depends on built-in IPv6

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 04:59:45PM +0100, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
>Hi Greg,
>
>On 27/10/2020 14:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>From: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
>>
>>[ Upstream commit 287d35405989cfe0090e3059f7788dc531879a8d ]
>>
>>Recently, CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6 no longer selects CONFIG_IPV6. As a
>>consequence, if CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6=y is added to the kconfig, it will no
>>longer ensure CONFIG_IPV6=y. If it is not enabled, CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6
>>will stay disabled and selftests will fail.
>
>I think Sasha wanted to drop this patch [1]. But as I said earlier 
>[2], this patch is not wrong, it is just not needed in v5.9 because 
>the "Fixes" commit 010b430d5df5 ("mptcp: MPTCP_IPV6 should depend on 
>IPV6 instead of selecting it") is not in v5.9.
>
>I guess it is certainly easier to keep it because it is not wrong and 
>doesn't hurt.

I dropped a wrong patch by accident :(

Fixing this up... Thanks for pointing it out!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha