From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:02:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307290102.01313.bernie@develer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307281307480.6507-100000@xanadu.home>
On Monday 28 July 2003 19:13, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Removing the I/O schedulers is pretty trivial, please come up with a
> > patch to make both of them optional and maybe add a trivial noop one.
> >
> > Removing sysfs should also be pretty trivial but I'm not sure whether
> > you really want that.
>
> Being able to remove the block layer entirely, just as for the networking
> layer, should be considered too, since none of ramfs, tmpfs, nfs, smbfs,
> jffs and jffs2 just to name those ones actually need the block layer to
> operate. This is really a big pile of dead code in many embedded setups.
It's a great idea.
I've read in the Kconfig help that JFFS2 still depends on mtdblock even
though it doesn't use it for I/O. I think I've also seen some promise
that this dependency will eventually be removed...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-28 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-23 18:46 Kernel 2.6 size increase 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 [this message]
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
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
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2003-07-25 20:42 [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase John Bradford
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