Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support

From: Thomas Petazzoni <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:52:31 +0200

Le Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:12 -0700,
Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> 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
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