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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add possibility to set /dev/tty number
    > This means that not including the VT subsystem resulted in a 128k 
    > reduction in runtime footprint, and having only half the number of VT's
    > resulted in a 52k reduction. Assuming a linear correlation between the
    > number of VT's and the runtime footprint of the subsystem, that means
    > the subsystem itself incurs 26k of overhead, and each VT incurs
    > approximately 1.6k of overhead.

    Doesn't seem an unreasonable value - so yes you've made an argument for
    dynamically allocating the vt structures when they are first referenced.

    Alan


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