Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Feb 17 2008 - 13:00:46 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:56:45 -0600
> Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >
> > > Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in
> > > order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not
> > > needed, and then reduce the kernel code size.
> > >
> > > With CONFIG_DMI (i.e before) :
> > >
> > > text data bss dec hex filename
> > > 1076076 128656 98304 1303036 13e1fc vmlinux
> > >
> > > Without CONFIG_DMI (i.e after) :
> > >
> > > text data bss dec hex filename
> > > 1068092 126308 98304 1292704 13b9a0 vmlinux
> > >
> > > Result:
> > >
> > > text data bss dec hex filename
> > > -7984 -2348 0 -10332 -285c vmlinux
> > >
> > > The new option appears in "Processor type and features", only when
> > > CONFIG_EMBEDDED is defined.
>
> Given this:
>
> > > This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is based on previous
> > > work done by Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
>
>
> > Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> That should have been "Signed-off-by:". I'll speculatively make that
> change.

for the x86 bits:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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