From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: shrink net_device by #ifdef-ing protocol-specific members Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090728.102808.228535949.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4A6DC314.2010303@ixiacom.com> <20090727.082644.265102452.davem@davemloft.net> <200907281743.27871.opurdila@ixiacom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lgrijincu@ixiacom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com To: opurdila@ixiacom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44972 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752730AbZG1R2B (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:28:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200907281743.27871.opurdila@ixiacom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Octavian Purdila Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:43:27 +0300 > On Monday 27 July 2009 18:26:44 David Miller wrote: > >> This benefits, at best, %0.000000001 of users of the Linux kernel, >> because every distribution is going to turn on every single option. >> > > Not all Linux users are using regular (desktop/server) distributions. I didn't say all, I said "nearly all" which for many considerations is roughly equivalent. That %0.0000000001 was meant to represent non-distribution users.