netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 4/6] net: socket: remove register

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Message-ID: <20210722162448.GB9882@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:24:48 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 4/6] net: socket: remove register_gifconf

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 04:29:01PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Since dynamic registration of the gifconf() helper is only used for
> IPv4, and this can not be in a loadable module, this can be simplified
> noticeably by turning it into a direct function call as a preparation
> for cleaning up the compat handling.

I'd maybe mention that ipv4 must be built-in as that is the bit
required for all the above to make sense.

Otherwise looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>