From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:31:27 +0100
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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 

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