netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: do not allow ipv6 module to be removed

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Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:32:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	amwang@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: do not allow ipv6 module to be removed

From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:12:21 +0800

> From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> 
> There was some bug report on ipv6 module removal path before.
> Also, as Stephen pointed out, after vxlan module gets ipv6 support,
> the ipv6 stub it used is not safe against this module removal either.
> So, let's just remove inet6_exit() so that ipv6 module will not be
> able to be unloaded.
> 
> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>

Fair enough, applied.  We can always revert this later if we ever
make ipv6 properly unloadable.
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