On Monday 27 February 2006 17:29, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:18:06PM -0500, James C. Georgas wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-25-02 at 17:01 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > CONFIG_UNIX=m doesn't make much sense.
> >
> > I've been building it as a module forever. I often load kernels from
> > floppy disk, and building CONFIG_UNIX as a module often makes the
> > difference between the kernel fitting or not fitting on the disk. Could
> > we please keep this functionality?
>
> If size is important for you, you should consider completely disabling
> module support in your kernels:
>
> In my testing, disabling module support brings you a space gain in the
> range of 10%.
>
This only matters when you tight on memory - in the scenario above memory
may not be a great concern but kernel image size is because modules could
go on other medium.
--
Dmitry
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