Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752000AbWCBVyQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:54:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751997AbWCBVyQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:54:16 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:59878 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752000AbWCBVyP (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:54:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:53:30 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Adrian Bunk cc: Jesper Juhl , Herbert Xu , dtor_core@ameritech.net, jgeorgas@rogers.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool In-Reply-To: <20060302214055.GH9295@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20060301175852.GA4708@stusta.de> <20060302173840.GB9295@stusta.de> <9a8748490603021228k7ad1fb5gd931d9778307ca58@mail.gmail.com> <20060302203245.GD9295@stusta.de> <9a8748490603021240t31f58ea4ycafae4ee8a12095c@mail.gmail.com> <20060302214055.GH9295@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 21 > >Can anyone bring real life examples for this pretended harm? > >All examples I have heard until now fall under one of the following: >- CONFIG_MODULES=n wouldn't be worse >- if you want your kernel to fit on a floppy, CONFIG_UNIX shouldn't be > the thing making the difference between the kernel fitting on the > floppy and the kernel not fitting on the floppy > Well, not directly topic'ed to CONFIG_UNIX, but if the IPv4 stack was modular (like IPv6), we'd probably gain some 100 KB and would not have to worry about CONFIG_UNIX for a while. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/