From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755926AbYGaJ7e (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:59:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752979AbYGaJ7X (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:59:23 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:51828 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752459AbYGaJ7W (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:59:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices From: David Woodhouse To: David Miller Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, michael@free-electrons.com In-Reply-To: <20080731.025547.35826309.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080731092703.661994657@free-electrons.com> <20080731.024027.162488608.davem@davemloft.net> <1217497912.3454.95.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080731.025547.35826309.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:59:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1217498355.3454.103.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 02:55 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Woodhouse > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:51:52 +0100 > > > But there are a lot of people who really don't need these features > > and really want the option of leaving them out. > > I'll say it one last time. > > If you have ipv4 enabled, you need ETHTOOL. I have drivers which don't even _have_ ethtool support, and they seem to work fine. But leaving aside the debate on that point, your statement also seemed to be covering the other patches, such as the IGMP one and others which haven't been seen (or perhaps even imagined) yet. -- dwmw2