On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 18:13 +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > Well, this one will be really smaller. And yes, it will make some > > memory non-swappable, but I believe with triggers and infrastructure > > for N900 (and similar) it will be worth it. > > Ah yes thats such a major proportion of platforms > > > Plus, it will actually save CPU cycles, and thus significant power. > > All of which will be totally wiped out if you bump all the millions of > x86 server boxes in the world up by one page of kernel space and cause a > few disk I/Os FWIW the LED subsystem was designed to take advantage of kernel modules. If you don't use a given trigger, it needn't be in memory, loaded or even built at all. If something changed there which made that not possible, that would be rather sad. I agree with you that we shouldn't bump the kernel size unnecessarily but I don't think triggers should do so. I actually think the kernel could do with going on a diet and at least made so you can untangle more of the pieces you don't want/need. Cheers, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
