Re: [PATCH 01/10 net-next] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs
From: Bjørn Mork
Date: Tue Mar 10 2026 - 17:24:00 EST
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> The list does not include openwrt though, and I know that in
> previous releases, there was an optional kmod-ipv6 package
> that could be left out of an install without rebuilding
> the kernel.
The kmod-ipv6 package was dropped in 2016:
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/33beafa8d88e51907acba6fdece5a35f509934df
And IPv6 was unconditionally enabled in OpenWrt in 2022:
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/832e7b817221d288df76b763ca12c585365db5d8
Bjørn