Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add __global tag where needed.

Adrian Bunk
2006-08-25T10:51:01Z

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:34:38AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 12:26 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > But projects like embedded systems or OLPC that really need want
> > kernels should be the same projects that already avoid the
> > 10% size penalty of CONFIG_MODULES=y.
>
> OLPC has USB ports and wants to be fairly flexible about being able to
> connect stuff -- I don't think we can turn off CONFIG_MODULES in its
> running kernel.
>...

You can compile many USB modules statically into the kernel before
using more additional space than what CONFIG_MODULES=n saves today.

> dwmw2

cu
Adrian

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