From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: mpm@selenic.com,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
zwane@linuxpower.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop exported symbols list if !modules
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:48:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1081212494.15272.107.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040405163019.4e3ab546.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 09:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > Please measure it. It's not obvious to me at all.
>
> Miniscule savings
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 3221815 862456 0 4084271 3e522f vmlinux-before
> 3221591 862456 0 4084047 3e514f vmlinux-after
Reproduced here: that's the .comment section getting a little larger.
This gets stripped in building arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin, and hence
arch/i386/boot/bzImage.
So, the patch is just churn AFAICT.
Thanks,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-06 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-05 20:55 [PATCH] Drop exported symbols list if !modules Matt Mackall
2004-04-05 22:45 ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-05 23:07 ` Matt Mackall
2004-04-05 23:17 ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-05 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-05 23:36 ` Matt Mackall
2004-04-06 0:48 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-04-05 23:49 ` Brian Gerst
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