Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:38:40 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool |
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:31:34PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > It does also matter in the kernel image size case, since you have to put > > enough modules to the other medium for having a effect bigger than the > > kernel image size increase from setting CONFIG_MODULES=y. > > That's not very difficult considering the large number of modules that's > out there that a system may wish to use. >...
This might be true for full-blown desktop systems - but these do not tend to be the systems where kernel image size matters that much. Smaller kernel image size might be an issue e.g. for distribution kernels, but in a much less pressing way.
The systems where kernel image size really matters are systems with few modules where you know in advance which modules you might need. I played a bit with the ARM defconfigs, and if you consider that you can't build the filesystem for accessing your modules modular I haven't found any where making everything modular would have given a real kernel image size gain compared to the CONFIG_MODULES=n case.
cu Adrian
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