Hi,

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:06:19PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Right, the ipv6 was added indeed differently, without this conditionals.

You missed the part that JJO's IPv6 code *was* added with conditionals,
and that caused problems.  We *removed* the conditionals, and the resulting
code is easier to maintain now.

> Because of this I did not perform this task as part of the major build
> cleanup, and left this for the next phase.
> Most of the lowlevel network code already has #ifdefs, I will try my
> best to find a way to do the conditional without much changes.

I don't think that this is a useful way to spend your time.

Nobody has ever asked for it, and I don't see anybody volunteering to
maintain the resulting extra complications.

We want to *reduce* the number of #ifdef in the code.

gert
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