Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932139AbWJEP75 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:59:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751701AbWJEP75 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:59:57 -0400 Received: from ironport-c10.fh-zwickau.de ([141.32.72.200]:23194 "EHLO ironport-c10.fh-zwickau.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751651AbWJEP7z (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:59:55 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AQAAAKLIJEWMDg0 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,266,1157320800"; d="scan'208"; a="3886993:sNHT30734488" Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:59:53 +0200 From: Joerg Roedel To: James Morris Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module Message-ID: <20061005155953.GB2102@zlug.org> References: <20061005154152.GA2102@zlug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 22 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 - 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/