From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:59:19 +0000 Message-ID: <20090312215919.GA19200@shareable.org> References: <49B82566.3070909@weinigel.se> <20090311171354.04c7a63d@nehalam> <49B8E6D4.2030702@weinigel.se> <20090312.055523.193191701.davem@davemloft.net> <49B91A7B.7050303@weinigel.se> <20090312151211.GB24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49B93777.7030202@weinigel.se> <20090312174933.GC24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49B95386.2030600@weinigel.se> <20090312190517.GD24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christer Weinigel , David Miller , shemminger@vyatta.com, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, yanok@emcraft.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de To: Neil Horman Return-path: Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:39018 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751599AbZCLV7c (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:59:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090312190517.GD24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Neil Horman wrote: > I've not looked at the figures lately, but how much space does the > dhcp client and nfs root code take up in the kernel these days? About 4k apparently. See the difference from "400k compressed?". Also, uncompressing that may add 0.5 second boot time on a slow CPU :-) > I sympathize with you. This is exactly what soured me on embedded > work a few years back. Embedded shops are forever compromising > doing things correctly in the name of time and schedules, never > paying any heed to the possibility that taking extra time to do > things in an agreed upon, organized and standard fashion might pay > off for them in the long run. I must admit that a solution which makes the effective kernel size 800k larger (your figure) doesn't look like a good standard to me. If that was the "standard", I'd be tempted to add a MAC address driver hack to the kernel to save the space :-) -- Jamie