netdev - Re: [DISCUSSION] rt6i

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Message-Id: <20130718.203100.1960741588589171145.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:31:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fan.du@...driver.com
Cc:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] rt6i_genid

From: Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:28:51 +0800

> On 2013年07月19日 11:18, David Miller wrote:
>> Although it's a correct change, it is of almost no value.  %99.9999999
>> of users will be running kernels with CONFIG_XFRM enabled.
> 
> Thanks. Good to know %99.99999999 users protect their networking with
> IPsec.

That is not what I said.

I said that nearly every user will be running a kernel with that
config option enabled, I did not say that they will actually be
using IPSEC.

Distributions enable all options, so that users may use any facility
that they want.

So optimizing for things like this are almost pointless.
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