Re: net-pf-10, 2.6.1

[Russell King]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:36:28AM -0800, root wrote:
> Is there any guidance about this little annoyance yet? Most of the
> advice I've seen (on other lists) suggests putting the following in
> modprobe.conf:
> 
>    install net-pf-10 /bin/true

You want:

	alias net-pf-10 off

> Almost all of the error messages from modprobe come exactly on the
> heels of a call from cron to run exim. But why should exim spawn an 
> attempt to load this module? And why just with kernel 2.6.1?

Because its trying to see if the kernel supports IPv6 by creating an
IPv6 socket.  Since the IPv6 module is not available, it correctly
fails and uses IPv4 instead.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core
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