From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>, Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, uClinux development list <uclinux-dev@uclinux.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:24:55 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20030731152455.GE27214@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <buo1xw7thi1.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:03:34PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> writes: > > > The point was that in _some_ embedded systems, the space-savings is > > > wanted, and so a useful thing for linux to support. > > > > As has been pointed out, there's things like the block layer that aren't > > needed if you have just a subset of common embedded-device filesystems and > > some network stuff seems to have creeped back in. All I'm trying to say > > is that before you go too far down the CONFIG_SYSFS route, investigate the > > others first as there's a fair chance of saving even more. > > I'm not really trying to defend this particular config option, just > saying that the attitude of `why bother trying to cut down, it's more > featureful to include everything!' is not always valid. I hate email sometimes. My attitude is "some things you really can't cut out". I really am all for trying to cut things out, it's just that some things are tied in rather well (like sysfs and root device as opposed to the static table before). > You may very well be right that other subsystems offer better > gain/pain, and I'm all for attacking the low-hanging-fruit first. > > > To what end? One of the things we (== PPC folks) at OLS was that, wow, > > doing PM as some sort of one-off sucks, and if at all possible we want > > to get device information (and pm dependancies) passed in so we can tell > > sysfs and get any shared driver done right for free, among other > > reasons. > > [What's PM? Power Management? What does that have to do with anything?] Power Management, sysfs plays / will play a role in finding out the order in which devices get powered down. This is important on some types of embedded devices (and arguably important everywhere). -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-31 15:28 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2003-07-23 18:46 Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-23 19:14 ` Richard B. Johnson 2003-07-23 20:07 ` David S. Miller 2003-07-23 21:47 ` Randy.Dunlap 2003-07-23 19:32 ` [uClinux-dev] " Christoph Hellwig 2003-07-23 20:11 ` David S. Miller 2003-07-23 20:15 ` Christoph Hellwig 2003-07-23 20:22 ` David S. Miller 2003-07-23 20:27 ` Christoph Hellwig 2003-07-23 22:35 ` [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()? Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-23 22:37 ` Alan Cox 2003-07-23 23:00 ` Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-24 5:06 ` David McCullough 2003-07-24 11:28 ` Alan Cox 2003-07-24 12:04 ` David McCullough 2003-07-24 14:48 ` Alan Cox 2003-07-25 18:25 ` bill davidsen 2003-07-24 15:30 ` Hollis Blanchard 2003-07-24 19:37 ` Alan Cox 2003-07-24 19:51 ` Hollis Blanchard 2003-07-24 21:20 ` J.A. Magallon 2003-07-25 4:22 ` Otto Solares 2003-07-25 14:38 ` Hollis Blanchard 2003-07-28 3:19 ` Miles Bader 2003-07-28 8:14 ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau 2003-07-28 8:58 ` Miles Bader 2003-07-28 9:03 ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau 2003-07-23 21:57 ` [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-23 22:07 ` Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-23 22:27 ` Willy Tarreau 2003-07-23 22:34 ` Alan Cox 2003-07-24 20:27 ` Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-25 15:46 ` Christoph Hellwig 2003-07-25 23:55 ` [PATCH] Make I/O schedulers optional (Was: Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase) Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-26 8:17 ` Andrew Morton 2003-07-26 12:40 ` Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-26 14:07 ` Jens Axboe 2003-07-26 23:42 ` Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-26 23:41 ` Jens Axboe 2003-07-28 17:13 ` [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase Nicolas Pitre 2003-07-28 23:02 ` Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-29 2:36 ` Miles Bader 2003-08-08 13:25 ` [uClinux-dev] " David Woodhouse 2003-08-08 14:37 ` Bernardo Innocenti 2003-08-08 14:43 ` David Woodhouse 2003-07-25 18:16 ` bill davidsen 2003-07-29 22:29 ` Tom Rini 2003-07-29 22:48 ` Alan Cox 2003-07-29 23:06 ` Tom Rini 2003-07-30 2:07 ` Miles Bader 2003-07-30 15:33 ` Tom Rini 2003-07-31 1:49 ` Miles Bader 2003-07-31 4:17 ` Tom Rini 2003-07-31 5:03 ` Miles Bader 2003-07-31 15:24 ` Tom Rini [this message] 2003-07-30 2:49 ` [uClinux-dev] " Bernardo Innocenti 2003-07-30 15:35 ` Tom Rini 2003-07-30 16:45 ` [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase (PATCH) Bernardo Innocenti [not found] <cArb.74D.1@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <cUTh.6JZ.33@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <eLiy.31J.3@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <eLBW.3eJ.7@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <eLVb.3yF.1@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <eOJn.5NI.1@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <f1dJ.GS.21@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <faTE.2LQ.3@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <fd56.4Te.9@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <fdRv.5uB.9@gated-at.bofh.it> [not found] ` <fnHd.54o.19@gated-at.bofh.it> 2003-07-31 16:31 ` Kernel 2.6 size increase Ihar "Philips" Filipau 2003-07-31 16:43 ` Tom Rini 2003-07-31 17:04 ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau 2003-07-31 17:20 ` Tom Rini 2003-07-31 18:02 ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau
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