From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:04:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20080730150454.7612912f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200807301939.m6UJd5lT012610@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20080730133727.7774de6a@extreme> <20080730224849.59852c68@surf> <20080730140136.42223e3c@extreme> <20080730233551.76fd38a8@surf> <20080730144812.a71156f7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080730235231.71f1b2f9@surf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, mpm@selenic.com To: Thomas Petazzoni Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:37287 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760004AbYG3WF4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080730235231.71f1b2f9@surf> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:52:31 +0200 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Oops, sorry. [1] should have been > http://free-electrons.com/articles/conferences/elc2008-report#mackall. > > __ > The graph showed an increase of 28% on the kernel size over the last > two and half years. Over the last year, between 2.6.21 and 2.6.25-rc8, > the kernel size of the same allnoconfig has increased from 1.06 > megabytes to 1.21 megabytes, a 14% increase. OK. I don't really trust allnoconfig as a way of determining size changes. It can easily be the case that kernel A's allnoconfig happens to pull in more stuff than kernel B's allnoconfig. So I do think that one should dive into the details and verify that particular size changes really are due to unavoidable code bloat, rather than being due to some unfortunate Kconfig change. Tht being said, yes, I'm sure that it's getting bigger, overall.