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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/24] net, diet: Make TCP metrics optional
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 21:19:11 +0200
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On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:33:11AM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> 
> So why bothers 3.15+ Linux kernel? Why not use an old kernel e.g. 2.4.x?
> 2.4.x kernel doesn't have so many new features you want to get rid of here.

If you compare a 3.x and a 2.4.x kernel with the same minimal feature
set, you might see that the 3.x is bigger.

Thanks,
Richard