On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 02:21:36AM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote: > utf8data.h_shipped has a large database table which is an auto-generated > decodification trie for the unicode normalization functions. > We can avoid carrying this large table in the kernel unless it is required > by the filesystem during boot process. > > Hence, make UTF-8 encoding loadable by converting it into a module and > also add built-in UTF-8 support option for compiling it into the > kernel whenever required by the filesystem. The way this is implemement looks rather awkward. Given that the large memory usage is for a data table and not for code, why not treat is as a firmware blob and load it using request_firmware?
