From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: lgrijincu@ixiacom•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: shrink net_device by #ifdef-ing protocol-specific members
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:31:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907291331.22265.opurdila@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090728.102808.228535949.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 20:28:08 David Miller wrote:
> From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom•com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:43:27 +0300
>
> > On Monday 27 July 2009 18:26:44 David Miller wrote:
> >> This benefits, at best, %0.000000001 of users of the Linux kernel,
> >> because every distribution is going to turn on every single option.
> >
> > Not all Linux users are using regular (desktop/server) distributions.
>
> I didn't say all, I said "nearly all" which for many considerations
> is roughly equivalent.
>
> That %0.0000000001 was meant to represent non-distribution users.
There are many embedded / dedicated devices out there which use a customized
Linux kernel (wireless routers and other network appliances, set-top boxes,
TVs, etc.).
I have no idea about what the actual percent of the Linux users these account
for, but to dismiss it as %0.0000000001 seems like a rush statement to me.
tavi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-27 15:09 [PATCH] net: shrink net_device by #ifdef-ing protocol-specific members Lucian Adrian Grijincu
2009-07-27 15:26 ` David Miller
2009-07-27 16:23 ` Joe Perches
2009-07-27 16:27 ` David Miller
2009-07-27 16:33 ` Joe Perches
2009-07-28 14:43 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-07-28 16:49 ` Joe Perches
2009-07-29 14:20 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-07-28 17:28 ` David Miller
2009-07-29 10:31 ` Octavian Purdila [this message]
2009-07-28 6:57 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
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