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From: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
Subject: Re: Regarding offloading IPv6 addrconf and ndisc
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:28:57 +0200
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Hi,

David Miller wrote:
> Developer momentum means that the kernel is likely to get fixed
> whereas the userland component will more likely rot and not get
> fixed.
> 
> So in this sense resiliency does depend upon something being in
> the kernel or not.

I can only agree here. Lots of users use their own kernels instead 
of distribution kernels. Much less users divert core software from 
their distribution.

The big binary called bzImage/vmlinux whatever is a huge usability
advantage here :-)


Regards

Ingo Oeser