linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:50:51 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Ulrich Teichert <krypton@...ich-teichert.org>
To:	tim.bird@...sony.com (Tim Bird)
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net (David Miller), dwmw2@...radead.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	michael@...e-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features

Hi,

>I don't know of any embedded products that ship with NTP turned
>on.

Well, I do. To be exact, I've developed parts of it. But it's numbers
are only into the thousands, so that makes it insignificant ;-)

>It's best to assume, with embedded, that we're not shipping
>ANY of the desktop or server applications you are familiar with.
>Absent those, does something break in the kernel with multicast
>support when IGMP is turned off?

I do not think of NTP as desktop or server application, but that's
probably just me,

CU,
Uli
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