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Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:58:15 +0300 From: "Nick Kossifidis" <mickflemm@...il.com> To: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>, "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Net: ath5k, kconfig changes 2007/8/31, Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>: > 2007/8/30, John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:38:09AM +0300, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > > > 2007/8/28, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>: > > > > > > Also this whole patch seems rather pointless. It saves only > > > > very little and turns the driver into a complete ifdef maze. > > > > > Also most > > > people will use 5212 code only, 5211 cards are on some old laptops and > > > 5210, well i couldn't even find a 5210 for actual testing :P > > > > FWIW, I'd bet dollars to donuts that distros will enable them all > > together. > > > > Is saving code space the only reason to turn these off? How much > > space do you save? > > > > Is there some way you can isolate and/or limit the number of ifdef > > blocks further? If so, we might consider a version of this patch > > that depends on EMBEDDED or somesuch...? > > > > John > > O.K. as a first step i'll limit 5210 code only then, just an option > like "support older 5210 chipsets" which is going to be off by default > instead of 3 options. It's not just saving space, it's also saving > some runtime checks. It's not really a gain in performance though, > most checks are done during initialization and dfs setup, i just > thought it would be usefull to save as much cpu as possible. > Well after some thought i removed them all, there is no real gain from this in most cases (that ppl will use newer 5212 chips and combatibles). -- GPG ID: 0xD21DB2DB As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-) Nick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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