Why can't the IPv4 networking be built as a module?

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi...

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:02, Graeme Russ <graeme.russ at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Naive question of the day:
>
> I'm trying to cut down the size of a 3.3 kernel and one thing I have
> noticed is the TCP/IP v6 can be built as a module, but v4 cannot. Is
> there any particular reason for this, or is it simple a case of nobody
> has gone to the effort of modularising the v4 networking components?

IMHO it's mostly a matter of lack of modularitation (or we could say
lack of deeper code refactoring too). Almost all of networking stack
in Linux that I know (Novell's I-forgot-the-name, token-ring, Mac
I-forgot-too) are switchable.

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Mulyadi Santosa
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