Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

Denis Vlasenko
2004-04-29T22:47:30Z

On Thursday 29 April 2004 05:47, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> On Thursday 29 April 2004 04:36, you wrote:
> > Marc Boucher wrote:
> > > Hi Rik,
> > >
> > > Your new proposed message sounds much clearer to the ordinary mortal
> > > and would imho be a significant improvement. Perhaps printing
> > > repetitive warnings for identical $MODULE_VENDOR strings could also be
> > > avoided, taking care of the redundancy/volume problem as well..
> >
> > Is this worth 100 or 200 bytes of code though?
> > I'd have to say no.
>
> 1000-2000(?) instructions to display the message and some x(?) instructions

No. ~20 bytes or less on x86 (push,call printk() isns).
Plus text of the message (~150 bytes?).
If you're talking about *time* to execute 2000 insns, that
too does not make much sense.
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vda