On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I suggest it's also a matter of motivation. How many network developers run without IPv4? Very few I guess, so they aren't very motivated to do push it into a module they can disable. If there is sponsor out there for the work, that would likely increase the motivation. Greg (not a kernel network guy) _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
