From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@free-electrons.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: allow embedded targets to disable sysctl_check.c
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:47:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080207194735.35d87346.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802071438.58497.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:38:58 +0100 Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> wrote:
> Disable sysctl_check.c for embedded targets. This saves about about 11 kB
> in .text and another 11 kB in .data on a PXA255 embedded platform.
>
Nice improvement. But iirc sysctl_check was overtly a temporary thing.
Eric, was that the intention?
>
> --- linux.orig/init/Kconfig
> +++ linux/init/Kconfig
> @@ -475,6 +475,17 @@
>
> If unsure say Y here.
>
> +config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
> + bool "Sysctl checks" if EMBEDDED
> + depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
> + default y
> + ---help---
> + sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
> + to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
> + you to keep things correct.
> +
> + If unsure say Y here.
> +
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-08 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-07 13:38 [PATCH] sysctl: allow embedded targets to disable sysctl_check.c Holger Schurig
2008-02-08 3:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-08 10:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-02-08 12:26 ` Michael Opdenacker
2008-02-08 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-09 9:39 ` Michael Opdenacker
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