netdev - Re: [2.6 patch] NF_CONNTRACK_H323 must depend on (IPV6 || IPV6=n)

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Message-ID: <45BD4C72.70000@oracle.com>
Date:	Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:22:58 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...ts.netfilter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] NF_CONNTRACK_H323 must depend on (IPV6 || IPV6=n)

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:04:42PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
>> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:00:11 +0100
>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:53:48PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>>>> Adrian is this the correct way to constrain the selection between
>>>> "n" and "m" in this kind of situation?  I thought doing something
>>>> like "depends on IPV6" is sufficient to achieve that?
>>> "depends on IPV6" would fix the bug - but it would also make 
>>> NF_CONNTRACK_H323 unavailable for all people without IPV6 support in 
>>> their kernel.
>> Yes, that is an issue.
>>
>> I guess with some slightly ugly ifdefs we could support the
>> whole matrix of possibilities.  But perhaps that's undesirable
>> for another reason.
>> ...
> 
> This depends on what NF_CONNTRACK_H323=y, IPV6=m is supposed to be:
> - not allowed (NF_CONNTRACK_H323 must be modular) or
> - NF_CONNTRACK_H323 can only be used for IPV4
> 
> My patch implements the first case.

Sorry for the slow reponse.  This bug only came up due to my
bad gfs2/dlm patch, which Adrian has now corrected, so I think
you can just drop this patch.  It now builds for me with only
Adrian's gfs2/dlm patch applied.

-- 
~Randy
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