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ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RBL_SPAMHAUS_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[2a07:de40:b281:104:10:150:64:97:from]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; R_RATELIMIT(0.00)[to_ip_from(RLdey6otz8cz7qhffota9ydd97)]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DNSWL_BLOCKED(0.00)[2a07:de40:b281:106:10:150:64:167:received]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[suse.de:+]; RCPT_COUNT_GT_50(0.00)[133]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[2a07:de40:b281:106:10:150:64:167:received]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[netdev]; DBL_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[suse.de:dkim,suse.de:email,suse.de:mid,imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:rdns,imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:helo] X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.01 On 9/10/26 5:11 PM, Nicolai Buchwitz wrote: > Hi Fernando, > > Thanks for the patch - after nearly 30 years IPv6 should be mature > enough :) > > On 10.9.2026 16:48, Fernando Fernandez Mancera wrote: >> Historically, the IPv4 protocol has been linked to the core INET >> subsystem. Because shared infrastructure like the TCP/UDP engine, >> routing or INET hashtables live inside net/ipv4/, it has been impossible >> to compile a kernel with only IPv6 support. >> >> This patch introduces the CONFIG_IPV4 Kconfig symbol, which is set to >> 'def_bool y' for now. This does not allow to completely disable the >> IPv4 stack yet but it lays the necessary build-system work for that >> goal. >> >> In addition, multiple subsystems Kconfig symbols across networking >> features like tunnels, drivers and filesystems have been adjusted to >> depend on IPv4. Keep on mind that follow-up work is required to convert >> the Kconfig symbol to bool and remove the dependency on IPv4 where it >> makes sense. >> >> Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera >> --- > >> [...] > >> diff --git a/net/packet/Kconfig b/net/packet/Kconfig >> index 2997382d597c..00fda9e08cb0 100644 >> --- a/net/packet/Kconfig >> +++ b/net/packet/Kconfig >> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ >> >>  config PACKET >>      tristate "Packet socket" >> +    depends on IPV4 > >   depends on IPV4 || !INET > > Otherwise this would break existing configs with INET=n. The same applies > to other affected options that currently permit INET=n. That is a good point. I will review the other configs too. Thanks! Fernando. > >> [...] > > Thanks, > Nicolai >