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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:26:44 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: lgrijincu@...acom.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: shrink net_device by #ifdef-ing protocol-specific members From: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@...acom.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:09:08 +0300 > Some members of net_device are used only by some protocols. > > If those protocols are not compiled (as modules or linked in) they > should not take up space in the structure. This benefits, at best, %0.000000001 of users of the Linux kernel, because every distribution is going to turn on every single option. If you want to shrink structures, find ways to eliminate or shrink structure members in all cases. I'm not applying this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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