Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:02:14 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] Jhash in too big for inlining, move under lib/ |
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:47:18 +0200 "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> wrote:
> vmlinux.o: > 62 functions changed, 66 bytes added, 10935 bytes removed, diff: -10869 > > ...+ these to lib/jhash.o: > jhash_3words: 112 > jhash2: 276 > jhash: 475 > > select for networking code might need a more fine-grained approach.
It should be possible to use a modular jhash.ko. The things which you have identified as clients of the jhash library are usually loaded as modules.
But in the case where someone does (say) NFSD=y we do need jhash.o linked into vmlinux also. This is doable in Kconfig but I always forget how. Adrian, Sam and Randy are the repositories of knowledge here ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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