On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 16:36, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> This patch isolates code using IPv6, AF_INET6 and in6 usage inside >>> '#ifdef HAVE_IPV6' blocks. >> >> I think new projects from 2010 should not have ipv4-only. This time >> should be over, finally. And people should get used to see ipv6 >> everywhere, and we should try to break the chicken-egg thing wherever >> possible. :) >> >> I can see the use for a systemd without any IP networking, but >> compiling-out ipv6 seems like the wrong thing to me. Sure, we should >> make sure, that systemd handles a kernel without ipv6 gracefully, but >> not offer a switch to stay in the IP stone age. :) > > That means I'll have to maintain this patch outside tree forever? :-)
btw, if you allow my patch to get in, in consideration I will kindly create a new patch that flags if ipv6 support is present and if not fallback to my ipv4 code... but that also means we need review of my provided ipv4 code ;-) -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [email protected] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
