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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool
On Thu, 2006-03-02 21:39:22 +0100, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:51:06PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-02 18:38:40 +0100, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > Kernel image size matters if you try to make it boot off a floppy.
>
> Sure, but the usual router-on-a-floppy cases are similar cases where
> CONFIG_MODULES=n brings at least as much gain as making things modular.

You may want to have a chance to load modules from an initrd with is
on a 2nd floppy.

MfG, JBG

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