Sometimes people ask you do to things, like a bsd kernel without ipv6 code, and those guys pay you for doing this (ROFL)
it happened to me, i only have a couple of arrangements(mostly userland) to do, back in the day (4.8 or something like that). 2011/11/24 STeve Andre' <and...@msu.edu> > On 11/24/11 17:46, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> On 2011-11-24, Paul Irofti<p...@irofti.net> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:09:31AM +0000, Julien Crapovich wrote: >>> >>>> Hello. >>>> Absolutely, but compiling without INET6 is not supposed to generate >>>> error. >>>> I've just disabled INET6 on GENERIC file, not other hack. >>>> >>> This is indeed a bug. Other people should stop bashing. >>> >> Yes, of course, but I think that bugs which are only seen when >> people do things we tell them not to do should generally be a low >> priority for developers. >> >> If somebody needs this to work it's usually not going to take them >> long to put ifdefs in the right place and send a diff, if they aren't >> prepared to do this, I really think they should stick to a generic >> kernel. >> > I'm curious as to why this is needed at all. I've not bothered to look, > but I can't see that INET6 takes that much kernel space. Unless a > a 486 is being used, isn't this a false optimization? > > A long time ago I used to make SHRIMP kernels which had everything > I didn't need stripped out. Likely it saved 1.5M. I used that till I had > a horrible time switching laptops--I'd stripped out what I needed and > didn't figure it out for hours. That complete waste taught me that it > wasn't worth it. > > --STeve Andre' > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
