On 24 November 2011 10:59, Bret S. Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:20:29PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:12:10 +1100 >> "Rod Whitworth" wrote: >> >> > You are the only one who knows exactly what you did. Maybe. >> > Why should we waste time guessing? >> > >> > It's a pretty damn stupid thing to do anyway when it is so easy to >> > block v6 traffic using GENERIC and, BTW, your kernel is NOT GENERIC. >> > It doesn't matter that you were too ignorant to change the name... >> >> >> It may well not be worth the effort to fix if it is broken, especially >> considering the difficulties IPV6 has brought. Have you tried > > diff or GTFO > >> current out of interest. IPV6 commenting has broken the build before >> assuming that is the single thing that was changed and it builds now >> when uncommented. I completely disagree with damn stupid, it is >> obviously the most reliable method to disable ipv6 and the archives >> (ppp) add weight to this. >> >> You should ALWAYS /bin/cp -p GENERIC to a new file if you make changes >> though, that could waste a lot of devs precious time. > >
Is there any point in keeping INET6 as removable option ? Can't we just get rid of all the #ifdef INET6 goo ?
