From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: shrink net_device by #ifdef-ing protocol-specific members Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:53 -0700 Message-ID: <1248712434.10463.111.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> References: <4A6DC314.2010303@ixiacom.com> <20090727.082644.265102452.davem@davemloft.net> <1248711781.10463.108.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <20090727.092712.84381944.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lgrijincu@ixiacom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from 136-022.dsl.LABridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:3366 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752038AbZG0Qd4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:33:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090727.092712.84381944.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 09:27 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Joe Perches > Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:23:01 -0700 > > I think the cost of maintaining this is small and the > > percentage of users that benefit underestimated. > Prove it. Cost/bit/knot valuations are arbitrary. cheers, Joe