Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 May 2003 15:10:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86 |
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, May 06 2003, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 06 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 18:23, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > > According to Alan it's nearly possible to configure the block layer out > > > > > entirely, which would be a good thing to associate with a CONFIG_DISK option > > > > > too. > > > > > > > > David Woodhouse I believe.. > > > > > > Are we talking about everything below submit_bh/bio? Shouldn't be too > > > hard to write a small no-block.c for that... > > > > The idea is to configure out everything not needed when only NFS and/or JFFS > > (which doesn't rely on the block layer to work) are used. Pretty useful for > > networked or embedded machines. > > I see, that would indeed be a bigger job :). Just the block layer would > not be hard, especially if you make the restriction that the block > drivers usable would be ones that used a make_request strategy for > handling requests. That would allow you to kill ll_rw_blk.c, > deadline-iosched.c, and elevator.c. That's some 21k of text and 2k of > data on this box.
That's certainly a good start.
Nicolas
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