From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:26:01 -0700
> From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> > > Small systems can use ioctl/ifconfig for routing and > interface configuration. Make rtnetlink optional > This saves ~29k without LTO, more with LTO. > > text data bss dec hex filename > 483545 19371 13480 516396 7e12c net/built-in.o-with-rtnetlink > 454365 19275 12936 486576 76cb0 net/built-in.o-wo-rtnetlink > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Andi, I've had about enough with this patch series. We have moved several tools to only use netlink because it's the only extensible facility, and we are not looking back. 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
