Re: [PATCH 07/24] net, diet: Make ping sockets optional

David Miller
2014-05-06T03:04:30Z

From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:25:56 -0700

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> This saves about 6k text/data. ping still works fine using raw
> sockets like it always did.
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 268128 11555 7872 287555 46343 net/ipv4/built-in.o-noping
> 273610 11843 8176 293629 47afd net/ipv4/built-in.o-ping
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Sorry, not applying this, it's been discussed already, and it's
exactly small'ish systems that want this facility.

We want to move away from raw sockets, and making this optional
is not going to help us move forward down that path.