Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756829AbYAVTRw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:17:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752837AbYAVTRl (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:17:41 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:39813 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752484AbYAVTRk (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:17:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix unconditional arch/x86/kernel/pcspeaker.c?compiling From: Matt Mackall To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Ingo Molnar , Michael Opdenacker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux-tiny@selenic.com, Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <20080122185840.GA9700@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080118122540.GH11044@elte.hu> <20080118122926.GA15216@elte.hu> <4790A385.800@free-electrons.com> <1200664214.4001.24.camel@cinder.waste.org> <4790D3E3.4060409@free-electrons.com> <1200676219.3835.8.camel@cinder.waste.org> <20080118210938.GE10717@elte.hu> <1200695950.25782.28.camel@cinder.waste.org> <20080122143912.GJ7304@elte.hu> <1201019839.14436.30.camel@cinder.waste.org> <20080122185840.GA9700@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:17:07 -0600 Message-Id: <1201029427.14436.54.camel@cinder.waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1247 Lines: 36 On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:58 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:37:19AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:39 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > threadinfo-ool.patch: doesnt this break the scheduler? > > > > It didn't when I wrote it, 3+ years ago. But I'm sure it needs to be > > revisited. > > > > > tiny-cflags.patch: obsolete? Isnt CFLAGS already extendable? Question to > > > Sam i guess. > And what was the question then? > > We have today the possibility to say: > make KCFLAGS=-whatever > > and we have plenty of kconfig adjustmenst affecting the gcc options. > > I do not know if this covers it. Basically the idea was you could specify various flags that affected kernel size, in particular overriding the various bloated alignment defaults. If I were to do this today (if they haven't already become the default), I'd probably add a config var to request minimal alignment instead. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- 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/