Basically because Dave refused to recognize lots of embedded setups don't
need the netlink crap and couldn't just accept defaulting it to Y we all
get lumbered with it
> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
> complains about kernel bloat" :)
And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
appropriate approach to a problem.
Alan
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