Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] netpoll: add IPv6 support

From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:58:05 +0800

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 19:20 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri,  4 Jan 2013 11:14:30 +0800
> 
> > (Resend with a cover letter)
> > 
> > v3: fix CONFIG_IPV6=m case
> > 
> > v2: use bool for ipv6 flag
> >     fix !CONFIG_IPV6 case
> > 
> > This patchset implements netpoll over IPv6.
> 
> Thanks for submitting this properly.
> 
> But disallowing ipv6 netpoll support when IPV6=m is an unacceptable
> limitation, compiling IPV6 as a module is common and in fact
> recommended.
> 
> We've solved problems like this before, by putting the needed ipv6
> routines into a seperate library that is built statically into the
> kernel when necessary.
> 
> You should use a similar approach here.

Hmm, here we need ndisc_parse_options() and udp6_csum_init(). Not sure
if both can be inlined?

Thanks!