From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
davem@davemloft.net, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730235231.71f1b2f9@surf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730144812.a71156f7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Le Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:12 -0700,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> a écrit :
> > I understand your point, and I understand that adding many
> > configuration options might not look pretty to everybody (even to
> > me). However, the kernel developers want to keep embedded people
> > using recent versions of the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, the
> > kernel grows release after release (see [1] for a report, for
> > example),
>
> There is no [1].
Oops, sorry. [1] should have been
http://free-electrons.com/articles/conferences/elc2008-report#mackall.
«
The graph showed an increase of 28% on the kernel size over the last
two and half years. Over the last year, between 2.6.21 and 2.6.25-rc8,
the kernel size of the same allnoconfig has increased from 1.06
megabytes to 1.21 megabytes, a 14% increase.
»
Sincerly,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development,
consulting, training and support.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 19:39 [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support akpm
2008-07-30 20:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-30 20:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-30 21:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 21:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2008-07-30 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 23:35 ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 21:57 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:39 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:43 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:49 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:47 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 15:36 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 15:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-31 16:11 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 18:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-30 21:35 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:24 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 22:37 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 23:05 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 23:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 1:10 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 1:23 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:22 ` Kalle Valo
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