Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:23:01 +0100 (MET) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: ipv6 as module: usage count = -1 |
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 03:39:57PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > ksi@ksi-linux.com (Sergey Kubushin) writes: > > > On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Keith Duthie wrote: > > > > Just a small fyi. This is with 2.2.13 built with gcc-2.95.1 (I know - not > > > > recommended). > > > It is this way for a long since... The latest 2.3 kernels behave exactly the > > > same... > > > > In 2.2 it is not safe to unload IPv6. In 2.3 it is probably safe, but > > someone should go through the code and verify it first. > > The goal with modularizing that 150-200 kB piece of code out > of the kernel is to make boot image smaller for systems which > need it (i386 family, that is). Once the boot has completed, > there propably isn't *need* for unloading the beast, anyway.
Still, it would be pretty nice if it was possible, out of debugging purposes, for instance. I think we should aim for having as much code as possible in the kernel possible to work both as modules and static, and make them behave identically.
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