From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263539AbUBHV2C (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:28:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264113AbUBHV2C (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:28:02 -0500 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:52437 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263539AbUBHV16 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:27:58 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:27:57 +0100 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IPV4 as module? Message-ID: <20040208212757.GW28571@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040204200610.GB3802@localhost.localdomain> <20040205122921.GB28571@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gb4bweTRjl1pQhan" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --gb4bweTRjl1pQhan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2004-02-08 03:14:20 +0100, Tomasz K?oczko wrote in message : > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 23:06:10 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov > > wrote in message <20040204200610.GB3802@localhost.localdomain>: > > > Any technical reaon IPV4 cannot be built as module? Current kernel > > > barely fits on floopy (even with IDE as module); factoring out IPV4 > > > would allow to reduce size even more. > >=20 > > Some hard work need to be done to do that, but why shouldn't a kernel > > fit onto a floppy? My vmlinuz'es are at about 600 to 900 KB for i386 and > > a floppy can handle nearly about twice that size... >=20 > Better will be ask why you must recompile kernel for add ipv4 abilities > if you uses (olny) for example ipv6 stack ? :) That's the other way around :) Let's just omit legacy IPv4! > PS. Many modern PCs wave now only CD drive .. one CD can fit much=20 > more than kernel image and all kernel modules. So step your quostion path= =20 > it will be "much more correct" ask why the hell kernel is (still ?)=20 > modular (?) 8^> That's not all correct. You can fit 700 MB data on a CD-ROM, but booting is still emulated from a 1.44 MB floppy (or some other floppy/HDD images, but many BIOSses won't accept those (or handle them correctly)). MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --gb4bweTRjl1pQhan Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAJqndHb1edYOZ4bsRAtpDAJwJ/6xAHgCfvB4HfNiY04FvX29wkgCeLFIq TEsOD/GzlnXGSv/tETzXwps= =eEzu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gb4bweTRjl1pQhan--