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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: make scsi_devinfo infrastructure optional
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:00:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297274408.3016.29.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102091515.16202.bzolnier@gmail.com>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-09 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-09 14:15 [PATCH] scsi: make scsi_devinfo infrastructure optional Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2011-02-09 18:00 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2011-02-10  9:18   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2011-02-10 15:07     ` James Bottomley
2011-02-11  9:52       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2011-02-11 16:06         ` James Bottomley
2011-02-12 12:16           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2011-02-12 20:54             ` Marcin Slusarz

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