Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762110AbYFDTC2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:02:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754172AbYFDTCU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:02:20 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:49923 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753286AbYFDTCT (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:02:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:01:46 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Bernhard Fischer Cc: Tim Bird , linux-tiny , linux-embedded , linux kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation Message-ID: <20080604190146.GE4189@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <48447615.5050806@am.sony.com> <20080604103353.GC27335@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080604183432.GC27768@mx.loc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080604183432.GC27768@mx.loc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1476 Lines: 40 On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:33:53PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >My gut feeling is that the influence of this kind of linux-tiny patches > >is hardly noticably compared to the overall code size development, but > >if you have numbers that prove me wrong just point me to them and I'll > >stand corrected. > > > >cu > >Adrian > > > >BTW: I'm not insisting on "between 2.6.16 and 2.6.26", that's just some > > timeframe big enough for showing general trends. > > Current kernels are too big, they tend to be about 1MB (ignoring lzma or > gz compression), a couple of years back an ide- and network-enabled > kernel with 8139too (or whatever -nic you use in qemu nowadays) was at > least 30% smaller. No disagreement that the kernel could (and should) become smaller for situations where the kernel size matters. My question is only about whether *this kind of patches* is the correct approach. 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/