Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | 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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