Am 08.04.2012 21:24, schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik:
the stack is disabled entirely and the memory footprint may be the same as unloaded module and code paths on different places which has to check this
Here I eventually agree with You
hm you agree about memory fooprint you can disable ipv6 entirely
so again: what is your problem?
Yeah, finitely we are back at my beginning question, fine. Maybe $SUBJECT is incomprehensible, my English is poor. I was asked for any reason(s) why now is ipv6 compiled in kernel instead of previous (several months ago) state when it was kernel module, for years. For the present I cannot see any good arguments or references.
well, this link was posted as the last one came up with this question some days ago:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2011-June/003105.html