From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271225AbTGWTB0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:01:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271221AbTGWTA3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:00:29 -0400 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:5383 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271222AbTGWS6a (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:58:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:13:35 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [bernie@develer.com: Kernel 2.6 size increase] Message-ID: <20030723201335.A27990@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com References: <20030723195355.A27597@infradead.org> <20030723195504.A27656@infradead.org> <20030723115858.75068294.davem@redhat.com> <20030723200658.A27856@infradead.org> <20030723120901.57746fd8.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030723120901.57746fd8.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:09:01PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:09:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > So basically we'd have a CONFIG_NET_XFRM, and things like > AH/ESP/IPCOMP/AH6/ESP6/IPCOMP6 would say "select NET_XFRM" > in the Kconfig where they are selected. > > Then when CONFIG_NET_XFRM is not set all the xfrm interfaces > called from non-ipsec non-xfrm source files get NOP versions. > > Is this exactly what Andi's patch did? Just send it on > so we can integrate this. I think that's what it did modula the select which IIRC wasn't available back then. But I guess I'll rather leave this to Andi. > We actually lost a lot of code in other areas of the networking, for > example Andrew Morton and I made many bogus function inlines > undone because they made the code too large. That's cool! Now we just need to find a bunch more regressions and actually make 2.6 smaller than 2.4 :) Of course that's true for the other subsystems, too.