From: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:09:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091109220944.GH14091@buzzloop.caiaq.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF8582B.2000403@davidnewall.com>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:28:03AM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Daniel Mack wrote:
> > And even if the cursor behaviour is changable at runtime, I don't see
> > why it shouldn't have a selectable compile time default. Which is what
> > the patch adds.
>
>
> It seems like adding cruft to the kernel that is just as effectively
> available at run-time. Where does it end? Do we eventually add bash to
> the kernel?
One more thing:
Clemens' last patch didn't add anything to the kernel's binary size.
It didn't slow down anything either, as there is no run-time condition
evaluation. It just makes something configurable which was hard
coded before. So where's the cruft?
The comparison to 'bash in the kernel' is really inappropriate.
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-09 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 9:17 [PATCH] fbcon: make cursor display conditional Daniel Mack
2009-11-06 8:16 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-06 14:39 ` Andrea Righi
2009-11-06 16:45 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 8:35 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 9:10 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 9:15 ` [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 9:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 11:26 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 11:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 12:21 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 14:50 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 17:58 ` David Newall
2009-11-09 18:07 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 22:09 ` Daniel Mack [this message]
2009-11-10 12:05 ` David Newall
2009-11-10 12:30 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 12:36 ` David Newall
2009-11-10 12:39 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-10 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-11 6:56 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-11 7:54 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-12 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 7:28 ` Clemens Ladisch
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