Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:50:59 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add __global tag where needed. |
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:34:38AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 12:26 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > But projects like embedded systems or OLPC that really need want > > kernels should be the same projects that already avoid the > > 10% size penalty of CONFIG_MODULES=y. > > OLPC has USB ports and wants to be fairly flexible about being able to > connect stuff -- I don't think we can turn off CONFIG_MODULES in its > running kernel. >...
You can compile many USB modules statically into the kernel before using more additional space than what CONFIG_MODULES=n saves today.
> dwmw2
cu Adrian
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