Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759701Ab3GaNxx (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:53:53 -0400 Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.66]:19485 "EHLO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756443Ab3GaNxw (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:53:52 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 72.84.113.162 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19TTrEUnfWfNkvlEKxJK8T2uUjJ5VSCIX0= Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:53:46 -0400 From: Jason Cooper To: Greg KH Cc: Tony Lindgren , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] [ARM ATTEND] kernel data bloat and how to avoid it Message-ID: <20130731135346.GN5882@titan.lakedaemon.net> References: <20130731073802.GT7656@atomide.com> <20130731123351.GA30474@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130731123351.GA30474@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 25 On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 05:33:51AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:38:03AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Probably the biggest kernel data bloat issue is in the ARM land, but > > it also seems that it's becoming a Linux generic issue too, so I > > guess it could be discussed in either context. > > Why is it specific to ARM? What is so unique to ARM that causes it to > "bloat"? > > And what exactly do you mean by "bloat"? Perhaps he's referring to the multiplatform effort? You'd get a lot of board code that wouldn't be used at each boot. This should be declining though... thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/