On Wednesday 30 April 2008 21:11, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 20:22 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Andrew Morton has been saying recently that we need an 'embedded > > > maintainer', to take responsibility for 'embedded issues' in the core > > > kernel, as well as trying to improve our relationship with those using > > > the Linux kernel for 'embedded' devices -- who have a reputation of > > > not working with us very closely; to their detriment as well as our > > > own. > > > > I hope your job description doesn't include adding more and more > > CONFIGs though. > > > > I am sure there are lots of low hanging fruit where memory can be > > saved and it's a good thing someone cares about that, but please don't > > focus on the code size only. Or if you work on that don't do it > > using CONFIG or when you really add a new one find some other > > that is pointless and remove it first. > > > > There are simply already far too many of them and they make the > > kernel harder and harder to change. > > I agree. And if we do want to pay attention to pure code size, there are > other approaches -- like --gc-sections I have some patches in this area too. Were submitted to Sam but he was too busy it seems. -- vda -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
