[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] libwebsockets: add option to enable/disable ipv6 support

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Sep 25 12:33:14 UTC 2015


Hello,

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:27:08 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:

> Hi Thomas.
> Size delta kernel 4.2.1 x86_64_defconfig:
> System is 5879 kB vs 5704 kB
> Not much.

Still quite a bit, but not huge either.

> Keep in mind that even if we introduce the ipv6 option back this will be 
> an issue anyway with glibc and musl-based systems since the kernel might 
> lack ipv6 as well, sounds more like a bug than anything else.

Yes, probably libwebsockets should be able to work with IPv6 enabled
even if IPv6 support is disabled in the kernel, no?

Thomas
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