From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
davem@davemloft.net, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730235231.71f1b2f9@surf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730144812.a71156f7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Le Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:12 -0700,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> a écrit :
> > I understand your point, and I understand that adding many
> > configuration options might not look pretty to everybody (even to
> > me). However, the kernel developers want to keep embedded people
> > using recent versions of the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, the
> > kernel grows release after release (see [1] for a report, for
> > example),
>
> There is no [1].
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.
»
Sincerly,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development,
consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 19:39 [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support akpm
2008-07-30 20:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-30 20:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-30 21:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 21:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2008-07-30 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 23:35 ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 21:57 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:39 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:43 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:49 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:47 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 15:36 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 15:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-31 16:11 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 18:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-30 21:35 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:24 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 22:37 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 23:05 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 23:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 1:10 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 1:23 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:22 ` Kalle Valo
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080730235231.71f1b2f9@surf \
--to=thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=jeff@garzik.org \
--cc=mpm@selenic.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=shemminger@vyatta.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.