On Tue, Mar 10, 2026, at 22:18, Bjørn Mork wrote:

"Arnd Bergmann" [off-list ref] writes:

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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