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Message-Id: <200907291331.22265.opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:31:21 +0300
From:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	lgrijincu@...acom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: shrink net_device by #ifdef-ing protocol-specific members

On Tuesday 28 July 2009 20:28:08 David Miller wrote:

> From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:43:27 +0300
>
> > On Monday 27 July 2009 18:26:44 David Miller wrote:
> >> This benefits, at best, %0.000000001 of users of the Linux kernel,
> >> because every distribution is going to turn on every single option.
> >
> > Not all Linux users are using regular (desktop/server) distributions.
>
> I didn't say all, I said "nearly all" which for many considerations
> is roughly equivalent.
>
> That %0.0000000001 was meant to represent non-distribution users.

There are many embedded / dedicated devices out there which use a customized 
Linux kernel (wireless routers and other network appliances, set-top boxes, 
TVs, etc.). 

I have no idea about what the actual percent of the Linux users these account 
for, but to dismiss it as  %0.0000000001 seems like a rush statement to me.

tavi

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