why is ipv6 fixly compiled in latest F15 and all F16 kernels?

[Frantisek Hanzlik]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
>> Hello, up to Fedora 15 including, there was ipv6 as loadable kernel
>> module and was not problem disable/not load it. But recent F15 and
>> F16 kernels have IPV6 support compiled in kernel, know anyone for
>> which reason? For IPv4-only sites (which is absolute majority) this
>> is unneeded...
>>
> The only reason I can see is to allow the ip6tables firewall stuff to
> work rather than take unknown protocol processing paths.

I think all know modular kernel advantages over modules fixly compiled
into, thus I cannot understand why ipv6 should be exception. And about
some dependencies - from F15 new systemd should perhaps serve all
dependencies much better and easily, it's true?

> Download the
> kernel source and rebuild if it really bugs you on memory.

You mean it seriously? Of course, it is way... But switch to another
distro is in some cases more easier.