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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
