On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 04:18:36AM +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > > As far as I can tell, selecting "Enable IPv6 support in packages" does > > not automatically select the kernel module "kmod-ipv6." Should it? Could > > it? > > No and no. Doing that would force everybody who wants to ship IPv6 read > packages to include kmod-ipv6 in the images.
Why? Couldn't kmod-ipv6 be built as an (ipkg) module, thus not included by default in the images, but producing "IPv6-ready images". (I am not a kernel guru so I might be wrong here.) It could at least be mentioned as a comment/warning when selecting "IPv6 support". Otherwise, it is far too easy to forget "kmod-ipv6", build and flash a kernel without it, then figure out kmod-ipv6 is missing, build it as a module and... fail to install it since the kernel is missing IPv6-related symbols. Then it is of course too late and you have to reflash with a new kernel to be able to install kmod-ipv6.ipkg. I guess a lot of people might be bitten by this issue (I have been in the past, and it took me some time to understand what was going on --- and I found bug reports of other people with the same problem). Best regards, -- Gabriel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
