[PATCH] build: always set CONFIG_IPV6

[Paul Spooren]

> On 18. Aug 2022, at 16:07, Stijn Tintel <stijn at linux-ipv6.be> wrote:
> 
> 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.

ACK

> 
> Thanks,
> Stijn
> 
> 
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