On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 9:31 PM Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 06:27:47PM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote: > > Looking at https://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/ the memory footprint for a > > WPA2-personal binary > > is stated as 50KB on the x86 target without any debugging. > > > > I have tried to compile a minimal configuration WPA as below on RPI > > (had some issues with 32bit compilation on my 64bit machine): > > > but got the binary size of ~289K, am I missing something? or are the > > numbers outdated? > > I think those numbers are from the last time I looked at the minimal > binary sizes which was probably around 2005 or so.. A lot more > functionality has been added over the last 18 years and there has not > really been much focus to trying to make sure the minimum size would > remain small.. Thanks for the context. > > > But the help text for CONFIG_NO_WPA mentions ~35-50KB reduction, with > > > > CONFIG_NO_WPA=y > > CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=n > > > > we get ~237K, so, that is 52K reduction, so, can I assume that the > > "wording" should be a reduction and not absolute binary size? > > I'm not sure which wording you are referring to here.. This 35-50 kB > reduction is from 2005 as well and at the time and this one is reduction > as it says while the numbers on the web site are for the full binary. As NO_WPA reduces the footprint by 50K, I thought its "reduces binary size by" vs. "binary size is", but as you say, its just a coincidence that both are 50K. > > > Either way looks like the website text needs an update, as customers > > just refers to that expect to match reality. > > Well, I'm not sure whether there is really much interest on keeping this > type of number up-to-date and as such, that update might mean simply > deletion of any numbers or adding a note pointing out that the values > were from a snapshot in 2005 and do not indicated more or less anything > about the current snapshot. IMHO, we could just delete those. _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
