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

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Message-Id: <20080212120817.5d27d09d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:08:17 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, Linux-tiny@...enic.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny)

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:56:45 -0600
Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> 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@...enic.com>.


> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

That should have been "Signed-off-by:".  I'll speculatively make that
change.
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