Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:13:35 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [: Kernel 2.6 size increase] |
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:09:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > So basically we'd have a CONFIG_NET_XFRM, and things like > AH/ESP/IPCOMP/AH6/ESP6/IPCOMP6 would say "select NET_XFRM" > in the Kconfig where they are selected. > > Then when CONFIG_NET_XFRM is not set all the xfrm interfaces > called from non-ipsec non-xfrm source files get NOP versions. > > Is this exactly what Andi's patch did? Just send it on > so we can integrate this.
I think that's what it did modula the select which IIRC wasn't available back then. But I guess I'll rather leave this to Andi.
> We actually lost a lot of code in other areas of the networking, for > example Andrew Morton and I made many bogus function inlines > undone because they made the code too large.
That's cool! Now we just need to find a bunch more regressions and actually make 2.6 smaller than 2.4 :) Of course that's true for the other subsystems, too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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