linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Support compiling out human-friendly processor feature names

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Message-ID: <20140222193704.GA12698@thin>
Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:37:04 -0800
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@...el.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Support compiling out human-friendly processor
 feature names

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:16:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Is the goal here to shrink bzImage or the runtime kernel?

Both, though I primarily care about the former.

> Also, there are eay too many ifdefs in this patch.  You don't have to
> conditionalize the rules to build things, just don't include them if
> not needed.

Fixed in v2.

- Josh Triplett
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