From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module choices affecting base kernel size???
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 11:28:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3271.1020389337@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 May 2002 20:57:40 -0400." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205022054160.8024-100000@conn6m.toms.net>
On Thu, 2 May 2002 20:57:40 -0400 (EDT),
Tom Oehser <tom@toms.net> wrote:
>
>> Tom Oehser <tom@toms.net> wrote:
>> >Changing all =m to =n in my config makes a 4K difference in the kernel size.
>
>On Fri, 3 May 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> The majority of modules have no effect on kernel size but some modules
>> require base kernel code as well. This is typically common code or low
>> level setup functions. You will find that those modules will not load
>> now or will break.
>
>Great. I must have missed the list of exactly *which* modules do this...
>
>Any ideas on a reasonable way of how to identify them?
Not easy. Some of it is in the Makefiles, some of it is in the code.
Looking for conditional EXPORT_SYMBOLS() will find some of the extra
space, I don't know of any way of finding all of the extra code/data,
apart from compiling and measuring.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-03 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-02 14:49 module choices affecting base kernel size??? Tom Oehser
2002-05-02 23:58 ` Keith Owens
2002-05-03 0:57 ` Tom Oehser
2002-05-03 0:01 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-03 1:28 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-05-03 15:03 ` David Woodhouse
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