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From: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: jslaby@suse.cz, airlied@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	kilobyte@angband.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fonts:Kconfig: fix default enable FONT_8x8 and FONT_8x16 at the same time
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:48:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131230064842.GA6592@udknight> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131230053430.GA11990@kroah.com>

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 09:34:30PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:37:45AM +0800, Wang YanQing wrote:
> > FONT_8x8 and FONT_8x16 have the same default value line:
> > "default y if !SPARC && !FONTS"
> > 
> > I test run "make defconfig" for x86 will enable FONT_8x8 and FONT_8x16 at
> > the same time.
> > 
> > This patch fix it, because FONT_AUTOSELECT choice FONT_8x16, so
> > I decide to disable FONT_8x8, this patch will reduce size of kernel.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/fonts/Kconfig | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> I am not the maintainer of this file, sorry.  Also, I don't think it's
> correct, if you want, you can always disable this option on your own.
> 
Hi Greg KH.

Sorry for confusion, the default behavior enable FONT_8x8 and FONT_8x16,
FONT_8x8 eat ~50KB memory, but kernel never use it. I think this is not
good default behavior.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-30  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-30  3:37 [PATCH] fonts:Kconfig: fix default enable FONT_8x8 and FONT_8x16 at the same time Wang YanQing
2013-12-30  5:34 ` Greg KH
2013-12-30  6:48   ` Wang YanQing [this message]
2013-12-30 18:21     ` Randy Dunlap

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