Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

Andi Kleen
2007-11-28T17:32:29Z

On Wednesday 28 November 2007 17:48:17 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:06:45AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:00:22PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >...
> > > of a modular ipv6 is flawed.
> >
> > Modules that cannot be unloaded are still useful. Standard case: Distributions
> > like to offer an option to not use ipv6 because that is popular workaround
> > for the common "DNS server eats AAAA queries and causes delays" issue.
> > Forcing the user to rebuild the kernel for this wouldn't be practical.
> > If ipv6 wasn't modular that would be hard to do.
>
> It should be trivial doing it similar to the selinux=0 boot option.

They safe also a few hundred KB of memory this way.
I know it is not en vogue anymore to care about memory bloat, but
I personally like that.

-Andi