Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does
To: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller)
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:32:11 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, torvalds@transmeta.com,
        garzik@havoc.gtf.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org,
        davidm@hpl.hp.com, ralf@gnu.org
In-Reply-To: <20020131.154547.74749379.davem@redhat.com> from "David S. Miller" at Jan 31, 2002 03:45:47 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

>    Because 100 4K drivers suddenly becomes 0.5Mb.
> 
> However this isn't a driver, the crc library stuff is more akin to
> "strlen()".  Are you suggesting to provide a CONFIG_STRINGOPS=n
> too?  I wish you luck building that kernel :-)

For a large number of systems you don't need the CRC library. There are no
systems where you don't need memcpy, so your comparison is stupid to say
the least.

"Gee making this link is hard" is not a good reason to simplify the
config file, its a good reason to simplify the make file system
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