Re: [PATCH 01/02] net/ipv6: seperate sit driver to extra module

From: Peter Bieringer
Date: Fri Oct 06 2006 - 07:45:18 EST


Samuel Tardieu schrieb:
>>>>>> "Joerg" == Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Joerg> this is the submit of the patch discussed yesterday to compile
> Joerg> the sit driver as a seperate module.
>
> Your patch looks ok to me, but given that many people won't need sit,
> why is it enabled by default? Omitting it would save 10k of kernel
> text on x86 and people will see the new kernel configuration option
> anyway and will enable it if needed.

At least if set to "n" don't forget to alert the distributors (Red Hat,
etc.) to renable this. Otherwise, many clients which using 6to4 will fail...

Just my 2 cents,

Peter
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