Bug#591756: udeb size increase for vconfig support in busybox
On 21.01.2011 08:26, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> Just for the record, the difference between the size of the binary in
> busybox-udeb 1.17.1-9 (as is currently in git) when built on i386 with and
> without vconfig is 384 bytes. vconfig in is 212732, vconfig out is 212348.
> I built both locally in the same chroot to remove any other biases (gcc
> version, etc).
>
> Given that I am planning on putting vlan support into wheezy, if someone
> wanted to make an appropriate commit... <grin>
And for a bit more information.. vconfig (vlan package) is kinda obsolete
these days, iproute package took its role and extended functionality to
match current kernels. What I'm trying to say is that it's probably a
good idea to use more appropriate tools to start with, if the talk is
not about compatibility with some old code.
Busybox has iproute built-in, but its functionality is not sufficient
for configuring vlan interfaces (not even 1.18). I'll take a look
into this.
/mjt
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