netdev - [patch 0/6] ipv6 - ipv6 routing initialization

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Date:	Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:53:29 +0100
From:	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, pekkas@...core.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 0/6] ipv6 - ipv6 routing initialization

This patchset provides modifications around the routes initialization
for ipv6. Actually the init functions does not return an error code
so the protocol can not be notified that there were an error while 
initializing the routing subsystems.

The patchset make the init functions to return an error code, so the ipv6
can safely handle the error and fail gracefully.

The error code can also let to catch the kmem_cache_creation failure without
doing a radical panic. That's allow just to fail to load the ipv6 module without 
crashing down the machine.

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