From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove more code when IP_MULTICAST=n Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:48:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20080825084826.19923151@surf> References: <20080819150047.38f09acf@surf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse Le Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:18:38 +0200 (CEST), Geert Uytterhoeven a =C3=A9crit : > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > [RFC] Remove more code when IP_MULTICAST=3Dn >=20 > Probably you wanted to cc netdev@vger.kernel.org? Not necessarly at the beginning: I first wanted to get the feedback of embedded-concerned developers, who might have a better understanding than me of the networking stack. Last time I submitted a size-reduction patch to Dave Miller concerning IGMP, the answer was: =C2=AB I'm not applying this. This removes core parts of the BSD socket API from applications. Like TCP and UDP, multicast capabilities are something applications can always depend upon being available. If you want a broken networking implementation, you have the source code, so you can do it in your own tree. =C2=BB So, I'd prefer to send a good patch from the beginning. Thanks, Thomas --=20 Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com