Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: fix unconditional arch/x86/kernel/pcspeaker.c?compiling | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:59:46 -0600 |
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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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