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Message-Id: <200711281831.27379.ak@suse.de> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:31:27 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sam@...nborg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. On Wednesday 28 November 2007 17:48:17 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:06:45AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:00:22PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >... > > > of a modular ipv6 is flawed. > > > > Modules that cannot be unloaded are still useful. Standard case: Distributions > > like to offer an option to not use ipv6 because that is popular workaround > > for the common "DNS server eats AAAA queries and causes delays" issue. > > Forcing the user to rebuild the kernel for this wouldn't be practical. > > If ipv6 wasn't modular that would be hard to do. > > It should be trivial doing it similar to the selinux=0 boot option. They safe also a few hundred KB of memory this way. I know it is not en vogue anymore to care about memory bloat, but I personally like that. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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