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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: fix unconditional arch/x86/kernel/pcspeaker.c?compiling
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On Friday 18 January 2008 11:10:19 Matt Mackall wrote:
> > * Disable support for readahead, page writeback, pdflush and swap
> > when we have no storage at all (typically booting from an
> > initramfs). This corresponds to 69 KB of source code!
>
> That'd be nice, yes. It would probably make sense to be able to disable
> just readahead support when we're working with only solid-state devices.

Very nice. From a UI standpoint, shouldn't disabling the block layer take at
least some of that out? (Or disabling the block layer and all network
filesystems. /me tries to remember whether jffs2 depends on the block layer.
Now that qemu can fake an mtd, I really need to start playing with that...)

Rob
--
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.


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