The following (minimalistic) patch will give You 1.5kByte's on x86 for
free!! (In case the networking code is disabled...)
Please include it into the next official kernel release.
diff -urN linux-2.1.40/net/core/Makefile linux/net/core/Makefile
--- linux-2.1.40/net/core/Makefile Tue Apr 8 11:01:24 1997
+++ linux/net/core/Makefile Tue May 27 11:04:46 1997
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
O_TARGET := core.o
-O_OBJS := sock.o skbuff.o iovec.o datagram.o dst.o scm.o \
- neighbour.o
+O_OBJS := sock.o skbuff.o iovec.o datagram.o scm.o
ifeq ($(CONFIG_SYSCTL),y)
O_OBJS += sysctl_net_core.o
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@
ifdef CONFIG_NET
-O_OBJS += dev.o dev_mcast.o
+O_OBJS += dev.o dev_mcast.o neighbour.o
ifdef CONFIG_FIREWALL
OX_OBJS += firewall.o
End of the story about bloat ;-)
Thank's in advance
Marcin