linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code

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Message-ID: <20080212083323.6d579dc3@crazy>
Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:33:23 +0100
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Linux-tiny@...enic.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your review.

Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:01:18 -0600,
Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> a écrit :

> Looks ok. Please preserve original authorship (ie me) in some fashion
> in your description.

Andrew seems to already have picked up the patch in -mm (I received an
e-mail + x86-configurable-dmi-scanning-code.patch added to -mm tree).
If I resend a new one with proper credits, will Andrew pick it up and
replace the old version by the new version ?

> > On top of this patch, I've tested if removing the big dmi tables in
> > the code (for example in arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c) would allow to
> > make more space optimizations. However, it seems that simply
> > defining dmi_check_system() to an empty static inlined function
> > already allows gcc to optimize out the dmi tables, because there
> > are not present in the code. Is that possible, or is my
> > understanding incorrect ?
> 
> That's possible with modern gccs, yes.

I was compiling with 4.2.3, which I suppose is a modern gcc.

Thanks,

Thomas
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