Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernardo Innocenti <> | Subject | Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:02:01 +0200 |
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On Monday 28 July 2003 19:13, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Removing the I/O schedulers is pretty trivial, please come up with a > > patch to make both of them optional and maybe add a trivial noop one. > > > > Removing sysfs should also be pretty trivial but I'm not sure whether > > you really want that. > > Being able to remove the block layer entirely, just as for the networking > layer, should be considered too, since none of ramfs, tmpfs, nfs, smbfs, > jffs and jffs2 just to name those ones actually need the block layer to > operate. This is really a big pile of dead code in many embedded setups.
It's a great idea.
I've read in the Kconfig help that JFFS2 still depends on mtdblock even though it doesn't use it for I/O. I think I've also seen some promise that this dependency will eventually be removed...
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