Re: netdevice.h micro patch

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:31:47 +0000

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frankb@ipf.de said:
> MAX_HEADER is set dependent on definition of used network features.
> It's set too small if you define IPIP as a module, because
> CONFIG_NET_IPIP is undef'ed in autoconf.h and only
> CONF_NET_IPIP_MODULE has a value of 1. I don't even know if that
> causes any problem.

Whenever possible, the kernel shouldn't depend on _MODULE config options, in
order to allow you to compile new modules without having to recompile the
kernel. Unless the overhead is prohibitive, I'd suggest just turning into
#if 1

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