Re: [PATCH] mptcp: MPTCP_IPV6 should depend on IPV6 instead of selecting it

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Oct 21 2020 - 05:43:22 EST


Hi Jakub,

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:56 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:26:34 +0200 Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> > On 20/10/2020 09:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > MPTCP_IPV6 selects IPV6, thus enabling an optional feature the user may
> > > not want to enable. Fix this by making MPTCP_IPV6 depend on IPV6, like
> > > is done for all other IPv6 features.
> >
> > Here again, the intension was to select IPv6 from MPTCP but I understand
> > the issue: if we enable MPTCP, we will select IPV6 as well by default.
> > Maybe not what we want on some embedded devices with very limited memory
> > where IPV6 is already off. We should instead enable MPTCP_IPV6 only if
> > IPV6=y. LGTM then!
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, thanks!

My apologies, this fails for the CONFIG_IPV6=m and CONFIG_MPTCP=y
case:
+ error: net/mptcp/protocol.o: undefined reference to
`inet6_getname': => .rodata+0x19c)
+ error: net/mptcp/protocol.o: undefined reference to `inet6_ioctl':
=> .rodata+0x1a4)
+ error: net/mptcp/protocol.o: undefined reference to
`inet6_recvmsg': => .rodata+0x1c4)
+ error: net/mptcp/protocol.o: undefined reference to
`inet6_release': => .rodata+0x188)
+ error: net/mptcp/protocol.o: undefined reference to
`inet6_sendmsg': => .rodata+0x1c0)
+ error: protocol.c: undefined reference to `inet6_destroy_sock':
=> .text+0x4994)
+ error: protocol.c: undefined reference to
`inet6_register_protosw': => .init.text+0xc6)
+ error: protocol.c: undefined reference to `inet6_stream_ops': =>
.text+0x2bb0)
+ error: protocol.c: undefined reference to `tcpv6_prot': => .text+0x2ba8)
+ error: subflow.c: undefined reference to
`tcp_request_sock_ipv6_ops': => .text+0x8e2)
+ error: undefined reference to `ipv6_specific': => (.init.text+0xea)
+ error: undefined reference to `tcp_request_sock_ipv6_ops': =>
(.init.text+0xc4)

So those issues have to be fixed first

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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