I've added a new kernel configuration option that reduces the size of
the kernel without harmfully changing kernel functionality.
CONFIG_SMALL_KERNEL will turn off some unnecessary informational driver
initialization messages and the code that is used to generate them. This
will be expanded as I find more opportunities in the code to apply it.
For now, if you use the current git snapshot with and without this
option selected, the results will be something like this:
text data bss dec
55840 6984 50884 113708 CONFIG_SMALL_KERNEL=n
55152 6720 50884 112756 CONFIG_SMALL_KERNEL=y
-688 -264 0 -952 Change
I also updated the kernel defconfig to match currently available options
and cleaned out some junk kernel config options that were not referenced
anywhere in the actual code.
-Jody
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