>Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:58:44 +0100 (BST)
>From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@skate.demon.co.uk>
>
>On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Mike Long wrote:
>
>> 	options PPP_COMPRESS
>
>actually, that should be PPP_BSDCOMP

Yeah, bit rot in my head.  Oops.

>> PPP (non-VJ) compression is optional because it bloats the kernel by
>> ~35K.
>
>  I just looked at this because I was putting it in my kernel config file
>(might as well try it out, eh :) and wanted a meaningful comment there too.
>It seems to me that the only things that defining these options would do is
>to control whether or not the compressions were known about (in
>net/if_ppp.c), not reduce kernel bloat at all.. 

Inclusion of the compression code (zlib.c) is controlled by
/sys/conf/files.  The ~35K I mentioned earlier is the size of zlib.o.
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