Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751711AbWJERYN (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751397AbWJERYN (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:13 -0400 Received: from yue.linux-ipv6.org ([203.178.140.15]:37391 "EHLO yue.st-paulia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355AbWJERYL (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:26:35 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20061006.022635.85990065.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> To: jmorris@namei.org Cc: joro-lkml@zlug.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= In-Reply-To: References: <20061005154152.GA2102@zlug.org> Organization: USAGI/WIDE Project X-URL: http://www.yoshifuji.org/%7Ehideaki/ X-Fingerprint: 9022 65EB 1ECF 3AD1 0BDF 80D8 4807 F894 E062 0EEA X-PGP-Key-URL: http://www.yoshifuji.org/%7Ehideaki/hideaki@yoshifuji.org.asc X-Face: "5$Al-.M>NJ%a'@hhZdQm:."qn~PA^gq4o*>iCFToq*bAi#4FRtx}enhuQKz7fNqQz\BYU] $~O_5m-9'}MIs`XGwIEscw;e5b>n"B_?j/AkL~i/MEaZBLP X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.1 (AOI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1034 Lines: 22 In article (at Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:49:38 -0400 (EDT)), James Morris says: > 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. Agreed. And, we could add #ifdef in addrconf.c. --yoshfuji - 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/