netdev - Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: Make IPv6 packet parsing dependent on IPv6 config

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Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:36:53 -0800
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Cc:	dev@...nvswitch.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	fengguang.wu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: Make IPv6 packet parsing dependent on IPv6 config

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com> wrote:
> Openvswitch attempts to use IPv6 packet parsing functions without
> any dependency on IPv6 (unlike every other place in kernel).  Pull
> the IPv6 code in openvswitch togeter and put a conditional that's
> dependent on CONFIG_IPV6.
>
> Resolves:
> net/built-in.o: In function `ovs_flow_extract':
> (.text+0xbf5d5): undefined reference to `ipv6_skip_exthdr'
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>

(Sorry for duplicates received, the original message had a typo in the
mailing list address.)

Doesn't this move in the opposite direction of your patches to make
IPv6 GSO/GRO always available?  The packets being processed here are
generally created by the guest but with Open vSwitch running on the
host.  Also, ipv6_skip_exthdr() is in exthdrs_core.c, so it actually
is always available.  I suspect that the real problem is that the
dependency on the ipv6 directory changed to CONFIG_INET and Open
vSwitch should now depend on this.
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