From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271410AbTHHOnO (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:43:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271411AbTHHOnO (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:43:14 -0400 Received: from pub237.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.237]:28654 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271410AbTHHOnL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:43:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase From: David Woodhouse To: Bernardo Innocenti Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Willy Tarreau , Christoph Hellwig , lkml , Alan Cox In-Reply-To: <3F33B5B5.6050705@develer.com> References: <200307290102.01313.bernie@develer.com> <1060349104.25209.364.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <3F33B5B5.6050705@develer.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1060353783.25209.510.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.1 (dwmw2) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:43:04 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:37, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > So, let's try to remove the block layer from the kernel. > Do you reckon it would be difficult to do? Depends how thorough you want to be. I wanted to go the whole way and actually remove the definition of struct buffer_head, then remove all the code which would no longer compile at all.. You could be slightly less enthusiastic about it and make life easier for yourself, I suppose. -- dwmw2