Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750920AbWCBWcT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:32:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750924AbWCBWcT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:32:19 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:60434 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750909AbWCBWcT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:32:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 23:32:18 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jan Engelhardt 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 Message-ID: <20060302223218.GN9295@stusta.de> 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 34 On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:53:30PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >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. I doubt making the IPv4 stack modular is worth the trouble, but feel free to send a patch as a basis for a discussion... > Jan Engelhardt cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/