Re: [PATCH] 2.5.31 driverfs: patch for your consideration

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:51:59PM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:32:55PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 09:54:35PM +0000, Adam Belay wrote:
> > > By the way, is diethotplug a space efficient binary version of the
> > > hotplug scripts or is there more to it then that?
> > 
> > Yes it is a space efficient version (the resulting binary is usually
> > 300% smaller than the original modules.*map files being used.)  It
> > achieves these space savings at the expense of flexibility, the binary
> > is always tied to a specific kernel version.
> 
> My apologies if you meant 30%

Very sorry, I ment that the original modules.*map files are 300% larger
than the diethotplug binary.

Hm, for the options I use in 2.5.31 I get these results:
  modules.pcimap	  6273 bytes
  modules.usbmap	 98513 bytes
  modules.ieee1394map	    73 bytes
  ----------------------------------
  total			104859 bytes

  diethotplug binary	 16332 bytes

Looks like the modules.*map files are closer to 650% larger :)

thanks,

greg k-h