Re: New (now current development process)

Linus Torvalds
2005-11-02T06:05:32Z

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> Anyway, it would be great to find ways to make big improvements. But
> I think the most realistic way to shrink the kernel is the same way it
> grows in the first place -- one small piece at a time.

No, I think that's a lost cause.

It doesn't grow by 700 bytes once in a while. It grows by much more, and
much more often. And we can't fight it that way, that's just not going to
work. Maybe have something that tracks individual object file sizes and
shames people into not growing them..

Linus