From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:13:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:13:19 -0500 Received: from mail.linux.com ([198.186.203.59]:28676 "EHLO mail.i.linux.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:13:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:13:06 -0800 (PST) From: Blu3Viper To: Andi Kleen cc: "David S. Miller" , cw@f00f.org, greearb@candelatech.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) In-Reply-To: <20010108063214.A29026@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > > If this is really true, 2.5.x is an appropriate time to make > > this, no sooner. > > I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias interface > emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a few lines of code, > assuming we need named if addresses for other reasons too, which we do) > and removing it it would break a lot of configuration scripts etc., for > no really good gain. How about turning it out with a legacy/deprecated CONFIG_ option so we can prepare people. For now it can default to enabled. -d - 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/