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Message-Id: <20130106.194917.2049529796787288137.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:49:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: amwang@...hat.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] netpoll: add IPv6 support From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:58:05 +0800 > On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 19:20 -0800, David Miller wrote: >> From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> >> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 11:14:30 +0800 >> >> > (Resend with a cover letter) >> > >> > v3: fix CONFIG_IPV6=m case >> > >> > v2: use bool for ipv6 flag >> > fix !CONFIG_IPV6 case >> > >> > This patchset implements netpoll over IPv6. >> >> Thanks for submitting this properly. >> >> But disallowing ipv6 netpoll support when IPV6=m is an unacceptable >> limitation, compiling IPV6 as a module is common and in fact >> recommended. >> >> We've solved problems like this before, by putting the needed ipv6 >> routines into a seperate library that is built statically into the >> kernel when necessary. >> >> You should use a similar approach here. > > Hmm, here we need ndisc_parse_options() and udp6_csum_init(). Not sure > if both can be inlined? I didn't say "inline", read my email again. We put such routines into a static library of ipv6 routines that gets statically built into vmlinux even if ipv6 is modular. I'm not explaining this agin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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