From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272653AbTG3Ctw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:49:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272658AbTG3Ctw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:49:52 -0400 Received: from adsl-110-19.38-151.net24.it ([151.38.19.110]:12239 "HELO develer.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272653AbTG3Ctv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:49:51 -0400 From: Bernardo Innocenti Organization: Develer S.r.l. To: Tom Rini Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:49:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 Cc: Willy Tarreau , Christoph Hellwig , uClinux development list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox References: <200307232046.46990.bernie@develer.com> <200307242227.16439.bernie@develer.com> <20030729222921.GK16051@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20030729222921.GK16051@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307300449.37692.bernie@develer.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 30 July 2003 00:29, Tom Rini wrote: > > Some of the bigger 2.6 additions cannot be configured out. > > I wish sysfs and the different I/O schedulers could be removed. > > > > There are probably many other things mostly useless for embedded > > systems that I'm not aware of. > > Well, from Pat's talk at OLS, it seems like sysfs would be an important > part of 'sleep', which is something at least some embedded systems care > about. I tried stripping sysfs away. I just saved 7KB and got a kernel that couldn't boot because root device translation depends on sysfs ;-) > ... not that 2.6 doesn't need some good pruning options now, but maybe > CONFIG_EMBEDDED isn't the right place to put them all. In the long term the embedded menu would get cluttered with all kinds of disparate options... I don't think I would like it. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ Please don't send Word attachments - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html