On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:29:00PM +0100, devzero@xxxxxx wrote: > 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. > The primary issue with defconfigs are that they get outdated rather quickly. They are often several kernel releases behind. This is a much more relvant issue to address than a few wasted MB of cheap disk space. So anything that just make it a tad more difficult to update a defconfig will not be accepted if the only aim is to save disk space. Sam - 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
