> > i just wanted to throw some stones on the bloated kernel problem which is > > increasing > > People used to be working on that, but then it seemed like the "size" > got to a point that people were comfortable with it. Are you sure that There's also a lot of pushback to things that add a ton of ifdefs. > just changing some build options would not make your image smaller? > Letting people know sometime in the past few years that the kernel was > getting "too big" for you would have been good to do :) It's also an increasingly hard problem to deal with because the scale of big machines means the algorithms themselves in a modern Linux OS just don't make sense for a tiddly embedded router. I know lots of people build them that way but if you compare it with one of the more conservative *BSD builds you have to wonder why not use BSD instead - especially with nanoBSD ? (and BSD has the reverse problem - most BSD does not scale to a modern bigger machine of course). Alan "1.2.13 was the last true Linux" ;-)