Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756150AbZCFPpu (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:45:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754833AbZCFPpl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:45:41 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:60908 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754251AbZCFPpk (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:45:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:45:48 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andreas Robinson Cc: Kay Sievers , Rusty Russell , sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] module, kbuild: Faster boot with custom kernel. Message-ID: <20090306074548.36ed2f9f@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1236352543.6594.59.camel@andreas-laptop> References: <1234722028-8110-1-git-send-email-andr345@gmail.com> <200902181528.29697.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <1234952753.10531.48.camel@andreas-laptop> <1235216636.7025.1023.camel@andreas-laptop> <1236004353.10055.49.camel@andreas-laptop> <20090302082003.1bb7bdc5@infradead.org> <20090302102703.50aaf724@infradead.org> <1236192430.6785.111.camel@andreas-laptop> <20090305161837.6ba80cc1@infradead.org> <1236352543.6594.59.camel@andreas-laptop> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1350 Lines: 33 On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:15:43 +0100 Andreas Robinson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 16:18 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:47:10 +0100 > > Andreas Robinson wrote: > > > > the only thing I can say (the graphs are a bit complex to read) is > > that you are loading a LOT of very expensive modules that bring you > > no functionality. > > Well, yes. It is the generic Ubuntu kernel booting in all its bloaty > glory. :) But this is what most users are stuck with. The distro > vendors won't change their ways because they want their stuff to run > on anything. the problem is that you are also having things that just don't make sense; even for the generalized case... but I guess that is for Ubuntu to resolve. I don't see the machines I run (with Fedora) exhibit this same issue; while there are a bunch of modules, none of the ones that are expensive-and-useless in your charts are there. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/