linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/4] Configure out AIO support

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Message-Id: <1217348866.15724.148.camel@calx>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:27:46 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	bcrl@...ck.org, linux-aio@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] Configure out AIO support


On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 17:45 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> plain text document attachment (configure-out-aio-support)
> This patchs adds the CONFIG_AIO option which allows to remove support
> for asynchronous I/O operations, that are not necessarly used by
> applications, particularly on embedded devices. As this is a
> size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to
> save ~7 kilobytes of kernel code/data:
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 1115067	 119180	 217088	1451335	 162547	vmlinux
> 1108025	 119048	 217088	1444161	 160941	vmlinux.new
>   -7042    -132       0   -7174   -1C06 +/-
> 
> This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall
> <mpm@...enic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
> Cc: bcrl@...ck.org
> Cc: linux-aio@...ck.org
> Cc: mpm@...enic.com
> Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org

These all look good to me, naturally.

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

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