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From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat•com>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@fb•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>, netdev@vger•kernel.org, kafai@fb•com
Subject: Re: net_test_tools: add ipv6 support for kbench_mod
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:55:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C21A9D.6080101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150122221256.GA2263247@devbig257.prn2.facebook.com>

On 01/22/2015 11:12 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
...
>>> Yes, we need export the sysmbol for the test. Can we export the symbol?
>>> or I can delete the route input test, which one do you prefer?
>>
>> There is no justification upstream to export that symbol since
>> there are no modular users in-tree.
>
> I changed it to do the ip6_route_input test optionally. If the test is
> required, somebody should change the kernel to export it and define
> HAVE_IP6_ROUTE_INPUT in the test module. I thought this is fine for a
> test module. How do you think?

See above, it can only be changed/exported from the kernel as long as
there is an in-tree module making use of it.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-23  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-14  5:45 net_test_tools: add ipv6 support for kbench_mod Shaohua Li
2015-01-14  6:35 ` David Miller
2015-01-15 21:17   ` Shaohua Li
2015-01-15 23:08     ` David Miller
2015-01-22 22:12       ` Shaohua Li
2015-01-23  9:55         ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2015-01-23 15:58           ` Shaohua Li

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