Message-Id: <200807311850.m6VIoqCE015883@arbas.nms.ulrich-teichert.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features
To: tim.bird@am.sony.com (Tim Bird)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:50:51 +0200 (MEST)
Cc: davem@davemloft.net (David Miller), dwmw2@infradead.org,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
       michael@free-electrons.com
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From: Ulrich Teichert <krypton@ulrich-teichert.org>
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Hi,

>I don't know of any embedded products that ship with NTP turned
>on.

Well, I do. To be exact, I've developed parts of it. But it's numbers
are only into the thousands, so that makes it insignificant ;-)

>It's best to assume, with embedded, that we're not shipping
>ANY of the desktop or server applications you are familiar with.
>Absent those, does something break in the kernel with multicast
>support when IGMP is turned off?

I do not think of NTP as desktop or server application, but that's
probably just me,

CU,
Uli
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