Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:05:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: New (now current development process)
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
> Anyway, it would be great to find ways to make big improvements.  But
> I think the most realistic way to shrink the kernel is the same way it
> grows in the first place -- one small piece at a time.

No, I think that's a lost cause.

It doesn't grow by 700 bytes once in a while. It grows by much more, and 
much more often. And we can't fight it that way, that's just not going to 
work. Maybe have something that tracks individual object file sizes and 
shames people into not growing them..

		Linus
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