Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422873AbWBNXrc (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:47:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422874AbWBNXrc (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:47:32 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:59403 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422873AbWBNXrb (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:47:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:47:29 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make INPUT a bool Message-ID: <20060214234729.GB3595@stusta.de> References: <20060214152218.GI10701@stusta.de> <20060214182238.GB3513@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060214182238.GB3513@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1817 Lines: 54 On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:22:38PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:14:21PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > > >Make INPUT a bool. > > > > > >INPUT!=y is only possible if EMBEDDED=y, and in such cases it doesn't > > >make that much sense to make it modular. > > > > > modular would make sense to me - http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/106 > >... > > I don't get your point: > > You don't need INPUT modular for hotplugging devices. > > In the normal EMBEDDED=n cases, users already do not have the choice of > making INPUT modular. > > If someone is working in an environment that is that space limited that > he sets EMBEDDED=y, why on earth should he enable module support that > uses relatively much space in his kernel? >... To back this with numbers: I'm usually using a non-modular kernel on my computer. This is the size difference between the same kernel with CONFIG_MODULES=y and CONFIG_MODULES=n: 3799589 vmlinux-with-modules 3447297 vmlinux-without-modules Yes, the kernel is becoming bigger by 10% only for supporting modules. Since the size increase is the space for the module support part of the kernel plus some additional space in many object files for stuff like EXPORT_SYMBOL's, the relative size increase is most likely even bigger for small kernels. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/