On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:44:51 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dave:
>
> This patch allows tcpdiag to support ipv6 work as a module when itself
> is also a module.
>
> I was planning for a more extensible method but now I think the effort
> would be better directed at a new generic socket netlink interface than
> the TCP-specific tcpdiag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I wanted to ask why all the work to make tcp_diag a module? If it is
a module there are more possibilties of user problems. Any utilities
that expect it would then have to deal with it not being loaded as well
as the possiblity of building a kernel without it.
Perhaps there ought to be a CONFIG_INET_EMBEDDED that is for those
configurations that want more restricted and smaller networking (ie no
cache's, smaller hash tables, less sysctl options, ...)
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