From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "James C. Georgas" <jgeorgas@rogers.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:09:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602282209.52638.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060227222926.GX3674@stusta.de>
On Monday 27 February 2006 17:29, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:18:06PM -0500, James C. Georgas wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-25-02 at 17:01 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > CONFIG_UNIX=m doesn't make much sense.
> >
> > I've been building it as a module forever. I often load kernels from
> > floppy disk, and building CONFIG_UNIX as a module often makes the
> > difference between the kernel fitting or not fitting on the disk. Could
> > we please keep this functionality?
>
> If size is important for you, you should consider completely disabling
> module support in your kernels:
>
> In my testing, disabling module support brings you a space gain in the
> range of 10%.
>
This only matters when you tight on memory - in the scenario above memory
may not be a great concern but kernel image size is because modules could
go on other medium.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-01 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-25 16:01 [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool Adrian Bunk
2006-02-25 17:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-02-25 17:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-26 18:19 ` Diego Calleja
2006-02-25 22:46 ` Olaf Hering
2006-03-25 19:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-26 15:20 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-26 21:48 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-02-27 22:18 ` James C. Georgas
2006-02-27 22:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-01 3:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-03-01 17:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-02 1:31 ` Herbert Xu
2006-03-02 17:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-02 19:51 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-02 20:39 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-02 20:51 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-02 21:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-03 9:27 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-02 20:28 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-02 20:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-02 20:40 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-02 21:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-02 21:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-02 22:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-03 13:31 ` make IPV4 modular (was: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool) Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-03 13:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-02 21:46 ` [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool Adrian Bunk
2006-03-03 9:30 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-03 4:28 ` James C. Georgas
[not found] ` <1141335521.3582.14.camel@Rainsong.home>
[not found] ` <20060302214423.GI9295@stusta.de>
2006-03-03 4:44 ` James C. Georgas
2006-03-03 11:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-03 14:48 ` James C. Georgas
2006-03-03 15:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-03 17:50 ` James C. Georgas
2006-03-03 17:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-03 21:11 ` James C. Georgas
2006-03-02 20:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-28 14:52 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-02-28 15:30 ` James C. Georgas
2006-02-28 19:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-02 21:47 ` Adrian Bunk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-03 4:06 [Fwd: Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool] James C. Georgas
2006-03-03 4:14 ` [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool James C. Georgas
2006-03-03 4:32 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-03-03 21:31 ` James C. Georgas
2006-03-04 22:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-03-06 23:42 ` James C. Georgas
2006-03-06 23:59 ` James C. Georgas
2006-02-17 15:41 [PATCH 0/2] RCU updates Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-17 15:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] rcu batch tuning Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-17 15:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] fix file counting Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-18 9:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-18 9:25 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-18 12:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 12:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-20 22:36 ` [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool Adrian Bunk
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