From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: make scsi_devinfo infrastructure optional
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:00:08 -0600
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On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 15:15 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Add SCSI_QUIRKS config option (default y and dependent on EMBEDDED
> config option) to allow disabling of scsi_devinfo infrastructure.
> 
> The output code size savings are ~14k for CONFIG_SCSI_QUIRKS=n
> (as measured on x86-32):

I don't understand the point of this patch ... without the quirks SCSI
will do the wrong thing on a whole bunch of stuff.  The savings look to
be tiny ... since the SCSI module is habitually a lot larger than your
figures suggest.

James