Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 22:28:05 +0100, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:51:06PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > You may want to have a chance to load modules from an initrd with is
> > on a 2nd floppy.
> 
> In these cases, CONFIG_UNIX shouldn't make the difference between the 
> kernel fitting on the first floppy and the kernel not fitting on the 
> first floppy.

Heh. By Linus' Law, kernel footprint grows. To get a nice useable
floppy disk, you may need to do *quite* some jumps to make it fit.

In the worst case I had, I even started to throw out some of the
device ID tables (unneeded entries), killed printk() by defining a
no-op for it etc. to save some *bytes*. Yes, it's a nice dance:-)

MfG, JBG

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