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

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Message-Id: <20121116.135341.453792886356015492.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:53:41 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	vyasevic@...hat.com, dev@...nvswitch.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	fengguang.wu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: Make IPv6 packet parsing dependent on
 IPv6 config

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:46:17 -0800

> I guess the simplest thing to do seems to just make Open vSwitch
> depend on CONFIG_INET seeing as it is practically useless without
> upper layer protocol support anyways.

The reason we have the ipv6 extension header parsing in a seperate,
always compiled statically into the kernel, module is exactly for
situations like this.

We need to think seriously if we want to go down this road of only
using INET as protection for every module that has some kind of ipv6
component to it.
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