netdev - Re: RFC: always enable MAC80211_RC

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:10:06 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@....de>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: always enable MAC80211_RC_PID?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 07:55:42PM +0200, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> Just what I remember about the discussion that led to the ugly Makefile.
> 
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 15:43 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > Can we get one of either:
> > - all selected mac80211 algorithms are built into the mac80211 module or
> 
> IIRC, this was originally voted against because this approach would
> increase kernel image size or module size unnecessarily.
>...

I don't see this point here.

People who _really_ need small kernels can still disable unneeded 
algorithms, and distribution kernels are anyway not usable for cases 
where a few kB more or less would matter.

> Mattias

cu
Adrian

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