David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 17:34 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: >> Andres Salomon wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As discussed in bug #503, I'm going to disable a bunch of kernel drivers >>> that I believe are unnecessary. The obvious ones are: >> [...] >>> Now, some other ones that I'd planned to disable that people might have >>> issues with: >>> >> Ok, some things that we're disabling in the experimental olpc-2.6 tree; >> >> >>> CONFIG_NFSD // NFS client is useful, but not the server >> There's a userspace NFSD if necessary; I see no need for this. > > Userspace NFSD is not something we should be considering. Disable > CONFIG_NFSD only if you're sure we never want to export stuff by NFS.
I'm pretty sure we never want to export stuff via NFS. > >>> CONFIG_NLS // are we using this for anything? > > Only if we have to mount FAT file systems in any legacy character set, I > suspect. Yeah, that's why it is staying for now.. > >>> CONFIG_CRYPTO // useful for IPSEC stuff; is anyone using it? >>> CONFIG_NETFILTER // images don't include iptables >> Images don't include iptables, and I never heard any justification for >> including the rather large number of netfilter modules. > > Agreed. A firewall is a band-aid for broken software. Let's not ship > broken software. > Unfortunately, neuralis informed me that we may need NAT support reenabled.. >>> CONFIG_IFB >>> CONFIG_DUMMY >>> CONFIG_PPP >>> CONFIG_SLIP >>> CONFIG_SLHC > > I can well imagine ending up in situations where PPP or SLIP are needed. > Any kind of connection over cellphones or indeed phones of any kind is > likely to end up using PPP, and I believe SLIP is used with satellite > connectivity sometimes. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
