Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:59:39 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_bridge.ko requires INET6... Message-ID: <20060201215939.A94425@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20060201224939.GB29980@comp.chem.msu.su>; from yar@comp.chem.msu.su on Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:49:40AM %2B0300 References: <20060201005658.A70005@xorpc.icir.org> <20060201090421.GT4297@FreeBSD.org> <ygehd7jquvd.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <20060201103746.GD90360@ip.net.ua> <20060201224939.GB29980@comp.chem.msu.su>
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:49:40AM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > 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@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. can you give more details on the if_gif issue ? lookint at the code in if_gif.c it seems that compiling it with INET6 does not define any new symbols but only adds some code paths within existing functions, so i don't exactly understand why the load failure. cheers luigi > -- > Yar
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