From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:47:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:47:09 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:41486 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:46:59 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission To: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:47:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, ak@suse.de, greearb@candelatech.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <200101070543.VAA24689@pizda.ninka.net> from "David S. Miller" at Jan 06, 2001 09:43:16 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > thing so that some stupid program that depends on ifconfig look and feel > would be a good start. > > I could not agree more. This reminds me to do something I could not > justify before, making netlink be enabled in the kernel and > non-configurable. Why. Its bad enough that the networking layer doesnt let you configure out stuff like SACK and the big routing hashes. Please don't make it even worse for the embedded world. 99.9% of Linux boxes probably have less than 5 routing table entries > I could almost, but not quite, justify it right now just because "ip" > is becomming standard and needs it. ip is also not the smallest and simplest of binaries. You can fit an ifconfig for ip in about 24K - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/