2007/8/30, John W. Linville <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:38:09AM +0300, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > 2007/8/28, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>:
>
> > > 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.
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Nick
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