From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
acme@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, pekkas@netcore.fi,
lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] disallow modular IPv6
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:32:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064903562.6154.160.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030929220916.19c9c90d.davem@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:09 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> For things inside the kernel, what ipv6 is doing is completely legal.
> Changing your config setting in any way in the main kernel tree can
> change just about anything else in the kernel, including the layout
> of structures.
With boolean options that's fair enough. But changing any config option
from 'n' to 'm' should not change anything in the main kernel. To do so
is confusing and should be considered broken, as Adrian says.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-30 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-28 22:59 Adrian Bunk
2003-09-28 23:18 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-28 23:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-28 23:39 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-28 23:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-29 0:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-29 0:32 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-29 9:02 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-29 14:15 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-29 14:28 ` Jan Evert van Grootheest
2003-09-29 14:29 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-29 14:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-29 14:46 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 5:17 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 6:31 ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-01 19:47 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-09-30 5:11 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 13:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-30 15:04 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-10-01 6:39 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 5:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 6:32 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-09-30 7:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 7:39 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 8:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 8:26 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 8:30 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 8:42 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 8:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 9:14 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 9:17 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 9:24 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 9:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-09-30 10:02 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 10:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 10:14 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 11:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-09-30 13:44 ` Dana Lacoste
2003-09-30 13:50 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-09-30 15:13 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2003-09-30 14:21 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-09-30 14:51 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-30 12:06 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-09-29 6:29 ` Pekka Savola
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