From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933992AbaEFDLb (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2014 23:11:31 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:42874 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933898AbaEFDL2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2014 23:11:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 05:11:27 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: David Miller Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/24] net, diet: Make rtnetlink optional Message-ID: <20140506031127.GM2382@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1399328773-6531-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1399328773-6531-13-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20140505.230830.1291070654883866275.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140505.230830.1291070654883866275.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The moment one of these "small" systems, or whatever you want to call > it, tries to use any feature added to device configuration in the last > 20 years ioctl doesn't cut it. They will simply not use all that complexity ever, 400k is simply prohibitive with 2MB. If you want to keep netlink what would you remove instead? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.