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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:30:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030309023007.GE15187@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1isutjmye.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>

> I agree the size of glibc 1.1M and /bin/bash 600K are substantial.
> And in most cases if I had to drop one it would be /bin/bash.  But 2M
> is not that bad if you already need 14M for your modules.   

[...]

> My basic point was it sounds like the development process is backwards.
> It feels like we are starting big and then going small, instead of the
> other way around.  

Truer words were never spoken.  Less is more.
-- 
---
Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-09  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-07  0:16 [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2 Greg KH
2003-03-07  1:02 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07  1:05   ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07  1:23     ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07  1:35       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07  9:55         ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07 13:43           ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07 15:33             ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-07 19:42               ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07 18:37             ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07 18:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-07 21:55                 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07 23:05                   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-07 23:36                     ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 23:53                       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-07 23:55                         ` Greg KH
2003-03-08  0:47                           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08  0:54                             ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 23:39                     ` Russell King
2003-03-07 23:44                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08  0:00                         ` Russell King
2003-03-08  0:38                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-08  0:46                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08  1:27                             ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-12 17:27                               ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-13  0:22                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08  0:46                           ` David Lang
2003-03-08  1:49                             ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-08  2:00                               ` David Lang
2003-03-08  2:26                                 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-08 16:55                                 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-08 17:06                                   ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-03-08  2:06                       ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                         ` <20030308100359.A27153@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
2003-03-08 15:50                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 16:13                             ` Russell King
2003-03-08 17:28                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 21:08                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-09  2:25                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-09  2:30                                     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-03-09 11:32                                 ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-09 11:46                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-09 14:19                                     ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-10  0:49                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-10  1:40                                         ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-10  6:01                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-10 20:33                                       ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2003-03-10 22:02                                         ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-08 20:52                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 21:10                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-09  1:29                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-09  1:46                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-09  2:37                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-07 19:21 Matthew Wilcox
2003-03-07 21:04 ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <1047106664.22024.0.camel@rth.ninka.net>
2003-03-08 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 16:03   ` David S. Miller
2003-03-08 16:35     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 16:22       ` David S. Miller
2003-03-08 17:07       ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-08 20:22         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 21:02         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 20:56       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-09  1:24       ` Roman Zippel

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