[PATCH] build: always set CONFIG_IPV6

[Stijn Tintel]

On 18/08/2022 17:03, Thibaut wrote:
>> Le 18 août 2022 à 15:40, Stijn Tintel <stijn at linux-ipv6.be> a écrit :
>>
>> On 16/08/2022 20:00, Thibaut VARÈNE wrote:
>>> Disabling this build tunable breaks build and seems unrealistically
>>> likely to be fixed.
>>>
>>> This patch sets the related CONFIG to always true and removes the
>>> config prompt, keeping the change minimal, and, should !CONFIG_IPV6 ever
>>> be fixed, easy to revert.
>> If we're always going to set it to yes, just drop the option entirely and enable it in the generic kernel configs. Aside from that:
> CONFIG_IPV6 is not a kernel config, it’s a tree-wide one.
>
> My idea was to keep the change as small as possible should we ever want to revert, while preventing further pointless bugreports[1].
>
> Entirely removing the config option requires more invasive changes throughout the tree and the package repositories, which is significantly less trivial than this "first step".
>
> Cheers,
> Thibaut
>
> [1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9580

OK, in that case, let's await at least one more ACK and we can start
with this.

Thanks,
Stijn