Various patches

Robert Schwebel r.schwebel at pengutronix.de
Fri Sep 26 12:43:10 PDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:53:12AM -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why is the dependency on OpenSSL such a bad thing?

If you have for example an embedded system that "just" needs x based
visualisation (machine control terminal for example), you may not need
crypto; in fact, these boxes often don't even have network support at
all. OpenSSL is something like 2 MB footprint, which is quite something
if you have only 16 or 32 MB flash instead of a harddisk.

So being able to work without it is good.

rsc
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