Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:14:41 -0500 | From | Legacy Fishtank <> | Subject | Re: |
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On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > When I went to build 2.4.17 on a dinky box (486, 16M RAM), the > > config option was missing. The box is a wall mount and is not very > > capable of multiple kernel experimentation alas. Can someone > > supply some background as to what has happened? > > It seems that RTNETLINK is now unconditionally enabled, I don't know > why.
It's required by newer RedHat and MDK initscripts, perhaps others. ip, iproute and similar utilities use it, and so since it's commonly required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan complains about kernel bloat" :)
Jeff
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