generic: Remove IPv6 depependency of bridge in 2.6.38+ Since 2.6.38 the bridge module...
authorJo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:48:53 +0000 (22:48 +0000)
committerJo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:48:53 +0000 (22:48 +0000)
commit9cd64fa754e0867b443113ba592e853f66cd2c76
tree44fd933494daaa39cd7e2e536c6782e9cf82ea0d
parentab74628c100d0b6a883306ff2d611c2cb743df36
generic: Remove IPv6 depependency of bridge in 2.6.38+ Since 2.6.38 the bridge module has a dependency to IPv6 if IPv6 is enabled. Since the IPv6 module isn't exactly lightweight and bridge also only needs a single function from IPv6, it's rather easy to create a common "lib" module with a RCU pointer to the actual implementation, if the IPv6 module is loaded (although slightly hackish).

The codepath seems to be only taken when using IPv6, so there should be
no negative side effects when IPv6 isn't loaded. I did not measure how
big the performance impact is.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski+openwrt@gmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 27237
target/linux/generic/patches-2.6.38/643-bridge_remove_ipv6_dependency.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
target/linux/generic/patches-2.6.39/643-bridge_remove_ipv6_dependency.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
target/linux/generic/patches-3.0/643-bridge_remove_ipv6_dependency.patch [new file with mode: 0644]