On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:16:09AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> I wanted to ask why all the work to make tcp_diag a module? If it is
> a module there are more possibilties of user problems. Any utilities
> that expect it would then have to deal with it not being loaded as well
> as the possiblity of building a kernel without it.
The reason is that prior to this if IPv6 was built as a module then
you couldn't have tcp_diag support for IPv6 sockets at all.
You're absolutely right about the potential problems with modules.
However, I did set the default to Y.
We should also have netlink module aliases so that these modules
can be loaded automatically by af_netlink.
Cheers,
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