Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:56:45 -0600
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 
> > Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in
> > order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not
> > needed, and then reduce the kernel code size.
> > 
> > With CONFIG_DMI (i.e before) :
> > 
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > 1076076  128656   98304 1303036  13e1fc vmlinux
> > 
> > Without CONFIG_DMI (i.e after) :
> > 
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > 1068092  126308   98304 1292704  13b9a0 vmlinux
> > 
> > Result:
> > 
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> >   -7984   -2348       0  -10332   -285c vmlinux
> > 
> > The new option appears in "Processor type and features", only when
> > CONFIG_EMBEDDED is defined.

Given this:

> > This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is based on previous
> > work done by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>.


> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

That should have been "Signed-off-by:".  I'll speculatively make that
change.