On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.siev...@vrfy.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 16:36, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <barbi...@profusion.mobi> 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? :-) Really, as I said in IRC I do not compile ipv6 as it does no good for me anytime soon, once I see the use I can just enable it again. Right now it just add kernel space, wastes cpu and memory and the worst thing: pollutes my ifconfig/netstat! ;-) Also gentoo provides a nice -ipv6 flag to keep it clean, and this patch would fit nice! For general purpose distros like Fedora it does make sense to support IPv6, but in my case I run my systems with all required device drivers built-in and just those that I have... whenever I buy new cards or change machines I recompile the kernel anyway. So keeping ipv6 for "one day it may happen" is not something I want. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: barbi...@gmail.com Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
