On Wed, 07.08.13 11:24, Hoyer, Marko (ADITG/SW2) (mho...@de.adit-jv.com) wrote:
> Hello systemd developers, > > I found that systemd automatically tries to load ipv6 and autofs kernel > modules, when they are not compiled in. > Could you give me a hint what is not working, when they are neither provided > as kernel modules nor compiled in? > > In case of autofs I found that automount units are not working any more (I > would have expected this). Without ipv6 I can't find any problems by now. > > So: > > > 1. Is there any other impact but the described one when the > autofs kernel feature is missing? No. .automount units become unavailable, but that's all. > 2. What impact do I have to expect in case the kernel does not provide > ipv6 functionality? Well, support for IPv6 goes away, of course. The reason we explicitly load the module at early boot is that we try to configure the loopback device to ::1, but that can only work if IPv6 is available in the kernel. Doing this kind of loopback configuration of IPv6 however is not hooked up to the kernel-side auto-loading of ipv6.ko hence we load it explicitly from usersapce. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
