netdev - Re: [Bonding-devel] 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

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Message-ID: <499B3A8F.7070609@free.fr>
Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:30:39 +0100
From:	Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
CC:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>,
	"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@....com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in	29-rc5

Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 	I'm not sure either of those really helps.  Distro kernels are
> built with CONFIG_IPV6 (and would have the CONFIG_BONDING_IPV6_DINGUS
> enabled as well), so the common case users would have it enabled, too.
> 
> 	Putting the ipv6 bits into a different module might not help,
> either, because the "core" bonding code would still have the call to the
> ipv6 functions.  Unless there's some magic way to somehow know at
> runtime whether or not the ipv6 module is loaded, and only try to
> resolve those symbols if ipv6 is loaded.  That seems complicated.

What about aliasing ipv6 to a dummy module "dummy-ipv6-for-bonding" that 
only provide the required symbols and do (close to) nothing ?

Just my two cents.

     Nicolas.
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