From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
michael@free-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:59:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4891FD95.7090700@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731.032553.67275433.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> Some folks might find it instructive to do a google code search
> or similar on the multicast socket options this things dikes out
> of the tree.
>
> Even simple things like NTP will spew failures with this CONFIG_IGMP
> thing turned off. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
I don't know of any embedded products that ship with NTP turned
on. It's best to assume, with embedded, that we're not shipping
ANY of the desktop or server applications you are familiar with.
Absent those, does something break in the kernel with multicast
support when IGMP is turned off?
-- Tim
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
=============================
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 17:57 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
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 [this message]
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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