Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2006 23:32:18 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool |
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:53:30PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >Can anyone bring real life examples for this pretended harm? > > > >All examples I have heard until now fall under one of the following: > >- CONFIG_MODULES=n wouldn't be worse > >- if you want your kernel to fit on a floppy, CONFIG_UNIX shouldn't be > > the thing making the difference between the kernel fitting on the > > floppy and the kernel not fitting on the floppy > > > Well, not directly topic'ed to CONFIG_UNIX, but if the IPv4 stack was modular > (like IPv6), we'd probably gain some 100 KB and would not have to worry about > CONFIG_UNIX for a while.
I doubt making the IPv4 stack modular is worth the trouble, but feel free to send a patch as a basis for a discussion...
> Jan Engelhardt
cu Adrian
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