netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip_gre: CONFIG_IPV6

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Message-Id: <20100929.002636.39178116.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:26:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip_gre: CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE support

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:11:58 +0900

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:24:03AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> .
>> 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,
> 
> I think if we cared about this we should provide ways to disable
> IPv6 (if there aren't any already) even when the module is loaded
> or the code is built-in.

We do provide this functionality already.
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