Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753207AbYBLUJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:09:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757231AbYBLUJ2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:09:28 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:39005 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752183AbYBLUJ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:09:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:08:17 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Matt Mackall Cc: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, Linux-tiny@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny) Message-Id: <20080212120817.5d27d09d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1202842605.12383.100.camel@cinder.waste.org> References: <20080212100418.5de764da@crazy> <1202842605.12383.100.camel@cinder.waste.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1378 Lines: 43 On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:56:45 -0600 Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > > Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in > > order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not > > needed, and then reduce the kernel code size. > > > > With CONFIG_DMI (i.e before) : > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 1076076 128656 98304 1303036 13e1fc vmlinux > > > > Without CONFIG_DMI (i.e after) : > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 1068092 126308 98304 1292704 13b9a0 vmlinux > > > > Result: > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > -7984 -2348 0 -10332 -285c vmlinux > > > > The new option appears in "Processor type and features", only when > > CONFIG_EMBEDDED is defined. Given this: > > This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is based on previous > > work done by Matt Mackall . > Acked-by: Matt Mackall That should have been "Signed-off-by:". I'll speculatively make that change. -- 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/