From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:59:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1217498355.3454.103.camel@pmac.infradead.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080731.025547.35826309.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 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