From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
michael@free-electrons.com, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] Configure out IGMP support
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:41:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217619715.3454.488.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731093221.565015353@free-electrons.com>
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 11:27 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> This patchs adds the CONFIG_IGMP option which allows to remove support
> for the Internet Group Management Protocol, used in
> multicast. Multicast is not necessarly used by applications,
> particularly on embedded devices. As this is a size-reduction option,
> it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to save ~10 kilobytes of
> kernel code/data:
The config option probably lives in net/Kconfig, not init/Kconfig.
And please could you make it clear how this interacts with IP_MULTICAST?
We already have a CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST option, for which the help text
says "For more people, it's safe to say N'. And I think it defaults to
that too. What more does CONFIG_IGMP remove? It's not made clear by the
help text.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-01 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 9:27 [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 1/4] Configure out AIO support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 10:09 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-07-31 10:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 22:42 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-08-05 18:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-05 18:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-05 18:36 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 13:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 14:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 15:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:26 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 16:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:57 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 17:32 ` Tim Bird
2008-07-31 18:12 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-31 19:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-01 7:28 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-31 19:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 20:37 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-02 16:38 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 13:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-04 18:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 18:24 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-04 18:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 18:54 ` Matt Mackall
2008-08-04 19:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 22:32 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-06 13:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-07 22:55 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 3/4] Configure out ethtool support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 10:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-07-31 10:49 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:57 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:42 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:51 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 11:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 11:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 11:50 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 15:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 4/4] Configure out IGMP support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-01 19:41 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-08-04 12:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-04 12:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-04 13:53 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 9:40 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices David Miller
2008-07-31 9:51 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 9:55 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 9:59 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:02 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:15 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:25 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 17:59 ` Tim Bird
2008-07-31 18:50 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features Ulrich Teichert
2008-07-31 19:46 ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-31 19:55 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01 7:17 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-08-01 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 19:47 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 16:42 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices Tim Bird
2008-07-31 17:20 ` Tim Bird
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