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Message-ID: <20080730235231.71f1b2f9@surf> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:52:31 +0200 From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: shemminger@...tta.com, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, mpm@...enic.com Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support Le Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:12 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> a écrit : > > I understand your point, and I understand that adding many > > configuration options might not look pretty to everybody (even to > > me). However, the kernel developers want to keep embedded people > > using recent versions of the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, the > > kernel grows release after release (see [1] for a report, for > > example), > > There is no [1]. Oops, sorry. [1] should have been http://free-electrons.com/articles/conferences/elc2008-report#mackall. « The graph showed an increase of 28% on the kernel size over the last two and half years. Over the last year, between 2.6.21 and 2.6.25-rc8, the kernel size of the same allnoconfig has increased from 1.06 megabytes to 1.21 megabytes, a 14% increase. » Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com -- 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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