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On 04/14/2006 06:26 AM, David S. Miller wrote:
> These interfaces were added so that new users of netlink could
> write their code more easily.
>
> Unused does not equate to "comment out or delete".

Does a GENETLINK Kconfig option make sense (possibly dependant on
EMBEDDED)?  I'm unsure whether these interfaces are going to be used
in core networking code that can't be disabled anyway.