if_bridge.ko requires INET6...

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Wed Feb 1 14:49:52 PST 2006


On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:37:46PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:41:10PM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> > >>>>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:04:21 +0300
> > >>>>> Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org> said:
> > 
> > glebius> If you have compiled the modules as part of buildkernel
> > glebius> target, then all options from kernel would apply to all
> > glebius> modules, thus the bridge_ip6_checkbasic() function won't
> > glebius> be present in if_bridge.ko, and you would successfully
> > glebius> load the module.
> > 
> > I believe it is 7-CURRENT thing, and is not MFCed yet.  So, if it is
> > on 6.x, you need -DNO_INET6 to build if_bridge.ko.
> > 
> Ask yar@ to MFC his modules/ mega-commit that fixed this in HEAD.
> I'd really love to see it in 6.1.

I haven't considered that an option since two issues were found
related to my mega-commit.  One was that if_gif wouln't load due
to unresolved symbols if built w/o INET6.  The other was in the
pf module -- pflog would be lost as it didn't have a separate module.

The essence of the first issue is that the set of source files
for a module cannot depend on kernel options, unlike for the main
kernel file.

The second issue has to do with the fact that pflog is more to
a plain option than to a device, as there are `#ifdef DEV_PFLOG'
lines in the pf code conditionalizing the pflog feature.

-- 
Yar


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