Re: [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 12:00:29 EST


On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:49:38AM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
> > Is there a reason why the tunnel driver for IPv6-in-IPv4 is currently
> > compiled into the ipv6 module? This driver is only needed in gateways
> > between different IPv6 networks. On all other hosts with ipv6 enabled it
> > is not required. To have this driver in a seperate module will save
> > memory on those machines.
> > I appended a small and trival patch to 2.6.18 which does exactly this.
>
> Looks ok to me, although given that users used to get this by default when
> selecting IPv6, perhaps the default in Kconfig should be y.

Ok, a good point to write y there. I change this. I wrote n there
because of the "If unsure, say N" sentence in the description.

Joerg
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