hi there, i found that there are a lot of deconfigs bundled with every kernel-release. (about 335 on my suse box) summed up, that`s 6,3M and 311 KLOC (Kilo Lines of Configuration :) i think, that`s quite a lot. if i strip the comments ( real comments and "# CONFIGOPT is not set") and the blank lines from that, the size reduces to 1.9M and 86 KLOC. i have tested such stripping with arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig and if i do a "make defconfig" afterwards, the .config in /usr/src/linux has those comments and the blank lines again. so it appears, that these defconfigs have lot`s of redundant information which could probably be wiped with a bigger cleanup patch. i`m not sure, if this is a good approach, because others may use the configs in a different way or it may work differently for other arches. maybe you experts can give a comment here ? would such cleanup for shrinking kernelsize be reasonable ? regards roland _________________________________________________________________________ In 5 Schritten zur eigenen Homepage. Jetzt Domain sichern und gestalten! Nur 3,99 EUR/Monat! http://www.maildomain.web.de/?mc=021114 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
