Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263954AbTEFSgs (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 14:36:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264018AbTEFSgs (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 14:36:48 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:35461 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263954AbTEFSgr (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 14:36:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 20:49:14 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Alan Cox , Russell King , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Marcus Meissner , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86 Message-ID: <20030506184914.GL905@suse.de> References: <20030506183010.GK905@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1345 Lines: 33 On Tue, May 06 2003, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 18:23, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > According to Alan it's nearly possible to configure the block layer out > > > > entirely, which would be a good thing to associate with a CONFIG_DISK option > > > > too. > > > > > > David Woodhouse I believe.. > > > > Are we talking about everything below submit_bh/bio? Shouldn't be too > > hard to write a small no-block.c for that... > > The idea is to configure out everything not needed when only NFS and/or JFFS > (which doesn't rely on the block layer to work) are used. Pretty useful for > networked or embedded machines. I see, that would indeed be a bigger job :). Just the block layer would not be hard, especially if you make the restriction that the block drivers usable would be ones that used a make_request strategy for handling requests. That would allow you to kill ll_rw_blk.c, deadline-iosched.c, and elevator.c. That's some 21k of text and 2k of data on this box. -- Jens Axboe - 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/