Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751610AbWCBUcr (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:32:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751683AbWCBUcq (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:32:46 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:37137 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751610AbWCBUcq (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:32:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:32:45 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Herbert Xu , dtor_core@ameritech.net, jgeorgas@rogers.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool Message-ID: <20060302203245.GD9295@stusta.de> References: <20060301175852.GA4708@stusta.de> <20060302173840.GB9295@stusta.de> <9a8748490603021228k7ad1fb5gd931d9778307ca58@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9a8748490603021228k7ad1fb5gd931d9778307ca58@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2024 Lines: 50 On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:28:15PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 3/2/06, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > 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. > > > > I believe the basic question is this: What do we win by making > CONFIG_UNIX a bool? >... We do not have to export symbols we don't want to export to modules but needed by CONFIG_UNIX. > Jesper Juhl 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/