INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Mark Andrews! 

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:07:56 +1100; Mark Andrews wrote about 'Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?':

>>>> I'm not interested in enabling support for IPv6 for now. 
>>>> 
>>>> When I remove INET6 from the kernel configuration, I cannot compile the 
>>>> kernel without disabling SCTP. With fresh 7.0-STABLE source, here's the 
>>>> error output (INET6 disabled, but SCTP enabled):
>>> Yes, INET6 is (currently) required if you enable SCTP.
>> 
>> Will it be fixed? Any time soon?
> 	It would be better to remove the option all together.  IPv6
> 	is no longer a protocol under development.  There is no
> 	need to make it optional any more.  Having it there really
> 	sends the wrong signal.

I strongly disagree. I want to keep my machines without IPv6 as long as
possible due to protocol (not implementation) architectural bugs.

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