Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751572AbWJEPtl (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:49:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751576AbWJEPtl (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:49:41 -0400 Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.7]:41351 "EHLO mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751570AbWJEPtk (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:49:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:49:38 -0400 (EDT) From: James Morris X-X-Sender: jmorris@d.namei To: Joerg Roedel cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module In-Reply-To: <20061005154152.GA2102@zlug.org> Message-ID: References: <20061005154152.GA2102@zlug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 23 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. - James -- James Morris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/