Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Bernardo Innocenti <> | Subject | Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:49:37 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 30 July 2003 00:29, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Some of the bigger 2.6 additions cannot be configured out. > > I wish sysfs and the different I/O schedulers could be removed. > > > > There are probably many other things mostly useless for embedded > > systems that I'm not aware of. > > Well, from Pat's talk at OLS, it seems like sysfs would be an important > part of 'sleep', which is something at least some embedded systems care > about.
I tried stripping sysfs away. I just saved 7KB and got a kernel that couldn't boot because root device translation depends on sysfs ;-)
> ... not that 2.6 doesn't need some good pruning options now, but maybe > CONFIG_EMBEDDED isn't the right place to put them all.
In the long term the embedded menu would get cluttered with all kinds of disparate options... I don't think I would like it.
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