Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:47:13 +0300 |
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On Thursday 29 April 2004 05:47, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: > On Thursday 29 April 2004 04:36, you wrote: > > Marc Boucher wrote: > > > Hi Rik, > > > > > > Your new proposed message sounds much clearer to the ordinary mortal > > > and would imho be a significant improvement. Perhaps printing > > > repetitive warnings for identical $MODULE_VENDOR strings could also be > > > avoided, taking care of the redundancy/volume problem as well.. > > > > Is this worth 100 or 200 bytes of code though? > > I'd have to say no. > > 1000-2000(?) instructions to display the message and some x(?) instructions
No. ~20 bytes or less on x86 (push,call printk() isns). Plus text of the message (~150 bytes?). If you're talking about *time* to execute 2000 insns, that too does not make much sense. -- vda
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