From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:52:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20080730235231.71f1b2f9@surf> References: <200807301939.m6UJd5lT012610@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20080730133727.7774de6a@extreme> <20080730224849.59852c68@surf> <20080730140136.42223e3c@extreme> <20080730233551.76fd38a8@surf> <20080730144812.a71156f7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, mpm@selenic.com To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([88.191.46.45]:35894 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759493AbYG3Vwd (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:52:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080730144812.a71156f7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:12 -0700, Andrew Morton a =C3=A9crit : > > 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), >=20 > There is no [1]. Oops, sorry. [1] should have been http://free-electrons.com/articles/conferences/elc2008-report#mackall. =C2=AB 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. =C2=BB Sincerly, Thomas --=20 Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com