Hi... On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:02, Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > Naive question of the day: > > I'm trying to cut down the size of a 3.3 kernel and one thing I have > noticed is the TCP/IP v6 can be built as a module, but v4 cannot. Is > there any particular reason for this, or is it simple a case of nobody > has gone to the effort of modularising the v4 networking components? IMHO it's mostly a matter of lack of modularitation (or we could say lack of deeper code refactoring too). Almost all of networking stack in Linux that I know (Novell's I-forgot-the-name, token-ring, Mac I-forgot-too) are switchable. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
