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
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