From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:38636 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757851AbYBFVNt (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:13:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:13:55 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: defconfigs size reduction? Message-ID: <20080206211355.GC12043@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <142056111@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <142056111@web.de> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: devzero@web.de Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:29:00PM +0100, devzero@web.de wrote: > hi there, > > i found that there are a lot of deconfigs bundled with every kernel-release. (about 335 on my suse box) > > summed up, that`s 6,3M and 311 KLOC (Kilo Lines of Configuration :) > > i think, that`s quite a lot. > > if i strip the comments ( real comments and "# CONFIGOPT is not set") and the blank lines from that, the size reduces to 1.9M and 86 KLOC. > The primary issue with defconfigs are that they get outdated rather quickly. They are often several kernel releases behind. This is a much more relvant issue to address than a few wasted MB of cheap disk space. So anything that just make it a tad more difficult to update a defconfig will not be accepted if the only aim is to save disk space. Sam