From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753351AbaEFRRz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2014 13:17:55 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:41612 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750748AbaEFRRx (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2014 13:17:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 13:17:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20140506.131752.740569380523989782.davem@davemloft.net> To: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, andi@firstfloor.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/24] net, diet: Make TCP metrics optional From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20140506164546.GB20536@cloud> References: <20140506155703.GA20391@cloud> <1399394359.15399.20.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <20140506164546.GB20536@cloud> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Tue, 06 May 2014 10:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: josh@joshtriplett.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:45:46 -0700 > The kernel can do the same. Consider the idea of analyzing a set of > userspace programs, determining what kernel functionality they do and > don't need, feeding that information into the kernel build process, and > automatically dropping unused bits of the kernel. Please make sure I'm not on the list of people who see reports for bugs reported in that setup. Thanks :-)