Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:00:22 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:37:43 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> > With my "Enterprise" hat on, I can see where Andi was coming from
> > originally. 
> 
> For the record my original motivation was to fix the "TCP exports everything
> for ipv6.ko" case cleanly. I later realized that it would be useful for the
> ABI stability issues too, but it was really not my primary motivation.
> This is why I didn't even mention that in the original patch description.

Since ipv6 can never be removed because it references itself, the whole concept
of a modular ipv6 is flawed. Sometime ago a patch was sent to remove the ipv6 module
unload hooks but as I recall Dave rejected it believing the unload code could be
fixed.
-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
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