Re: [PATCH 5.9 580/757] selftests: mptcp: depends on built-in IPv6

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 04:59:45PM +0100, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 27/10/2020 14:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 287d35405989cfe0090e3059f7788dc531879a8d ]
> >
> > Recently, CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6 no longer selects CONFIG_IPV6. As a
> > consequence, if CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6=y is added to the kconfig, it will no
> > longer ensure CONFIG_IPV6=y. If it is not enabled, CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6
> > will stay disabled and selftests will fail.
>
> I think Sasha wanted to drop this patch [1]. But as I said earlier 
> [2], this patch is not wrong, it is just not needed in v5.9 because 
> the "Fixes" commit 010b430d5df5 ("mptcp: MPTCP_IPV6 should depend on 
> IPV6 instead of selecting it") is not in v5.9.
>
> I guess it is certainly easier to keep it because it is not wrong and 
> doesn't hurt.

I dropped a wrong patch by accident :(

Fixing this up... Thanks for pointing it out!

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Thanks,
Sasha