Re: [PATCH 01/10 net-next] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs

"Arnd Bergmann" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:18:29 +0100

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2026, at 22:18, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> "Arnd Bergmann" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> The list does not include openwrt though, and I know that in
>> previous releases, there was an optional kmod-ipv6 package
>> that could be left out of an install without rebuilding
>> the kernel.
>
> The kmod-ipv6 package was dropped in 2016:
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/33beafa8d88e51907acba6fdece5a35f509934df
>
> And IPv6 was unconditionally enabled in OpenWrt in 2022:
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/832e7b817221d288df76b763ca12c585365db5d8

Thanks for checking!

Not sure what the commit log for the second one is trying to say, as
there generally was no build failure in mainline for a long time

But if nobody has bothered to revert the patch, it doesn't seem
to have caused any problems.

    Arnd