Commit 7a0552ba authored by Hideaki Yoshifuji's avatar Hideaki Yoshifuji

[IPV6]: Fix outdated and inaccurate information in Kconfig help.

parent afd7053f
......@@ -114,8 +114,10 @@ config IPV6
tristate "The IPv6 protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
---help---
This is experimental support for the next version of the Internet
Protocol: IP version 6 (also called IPng "IP next generation").
This is experimental support for the IP version 6 (formerly called
IPng "IP next generation"). You will still be able to do
regular IPv4 networking as well.
Features of this new protocol include: expanded address space,
authentication and privacy, and seamless interoperability with the
current version of IP (IP version 4). For general information about
......@@ -124,12 +126,10 @@ config IPV6
<http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/> and the file net/ipv6/README
in the kernel source.
If you want to use IPv6, please upgrade to the newest net-tools as
given in <file:Documentation/Changes>. You will still be able to do
regular IPv4 networking as well.
To compile this protocol support as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called ipv6.
module will be called ipv6. If you try building this as a module
and you have said Y to "Kernel module loader support" above,
be sure to add 'alias net-pf-10 ipv6' to your /etc/modules.conf file.
It is safe to say N here for now.
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