netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip_gre: CONFIG_IPV6

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Message-ID: <1285741443.22570.27.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:24:03 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip_gre: CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE support

Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 13:36 +0900, Herbert Xu a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 06:24:55AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > Well, we all know icmpv6_cleanup() is not really called (or can we
> > really unload ipv6 ?).
> > 
> > But unregister_icmpv6_send() should be the first call in it.
> 
> Do we really need to support IPV6=m and GRE=y? It might be simpler
> to just behave as if IPv6 is off when this combination is given.
> 
> Cheers,

Well, sometimes people wants to :

/etc/modprobe.conf
install ipv6 /bin/true


Yet, be able to load ip_gre as a module

so IPV6=m, GRE=m,



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