Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932294AbWCBRim (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:38:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932273AbWCBRim (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:38:42 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:45583 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932294AbWCBRil (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:38:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:38:40 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Herbert Xu Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net, jgeorgas@rogers.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool Message-ID: <20060302173840.GB9295@stusta.de> References: <20060301175852.GA4708@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1603 Lines: 38 On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:31:34PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > It does also matter in the kernel image size case, since you have to put > > enough modules to the other medium for having a effect bigger than the > > kernel image size increase from setting CONFIG_MODULES=y. > > That's not very difficult considering the large number of modules that's > out there that a system may wish to use. >... This might be true for full-blown desktop systems - but these do not tend to be the systems where kernel image size matters that much. Smaller kernel image size might be an issue e.g. for distribution kernels, but in a much less pressing way. The systems where kernel image size really matters are systems with few modules where you know in advance which modules you might need. I played a bit with the ARM defconfigs, and if you consider that you can't build the filesystem for accessing your modules modular I haven't found any where making everything modular would have given a real kernel image size gain compared to the CONFIG_MODULES=n case. 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/