Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:38:22 +0100 (MET) | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: blacklist kernel boot option |
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Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 14:23 schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > > On Jan 29 2007 13:44, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >What use is it to modularly compile something that almost everybody needs? > > [correction: meant CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD, because CONFIG_MD itself does > not generate any code] > > So just because almost everyone needs CONFIG_SCSI (SATA, usb_storage, > you name it), you're going to compile that in as well? It's just > another 180 KB [BLK_DEV_MD: ~100K] so let's compile it in!
For every module you waste PAGE_SIZE/2. In my system oliver@valisk:~/Desktop/linux-2.6.20-6-greg> lsmod|wc 46 158 1827 that's 92K. There is a point where the number of people who don't need it grows too small to justify that.
> There is a reason initramfs exists, and it's not only for firmware > loading or running custom scripts.
But shrinking the statically compiled kernel isn't one of them. You need to look at the actual memory footprint.
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