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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0903041244400.31513@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:46:37 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
cc:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, "J.A. Magall"@us.ibm.com,
	ón <jamagallon@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, bonding-devel@...ts.sourcefor
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in
 29-rc5


On Tuesday 2009-02-17 23:24, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> wrote:
>
>	I don't see any reason to change the IPv4 bits;
>
>there won't ever be a case of ipv4 not being loaded,

I would not be so sure of that.

>>> 	To answer your question, I have come across this (aliasing ipv6
>>> to nothing in modprobe.conf to disable IPv6) from time to time, but
>>> didn't think of it when the NA code was added to bonding.
>>
>>So I guess I'll start hacking the above, unless someone has a better
>>suggestion.
>
>	Well, I think this is pretty heinous, but I don't have a better
>idea at the moment.

IMO, a better solution could be to add a dummy ipv6 module that returns 
-EOPNOTSOPP or appropriate for most calls.
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