Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny)

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in
> order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not
> needed, and then reduce the kernel code size.
> 
> With CONFIG_DMI (i.e before) :
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 1076076  128656   98304 1303036  13e1fc vmlinux
> 
> Without CONFIG_DMI (i.e after) :
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 1068092  126308   98304 1292704  13b9a0 vmlinux
> 
> Result:
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   -7984   -2348       0  -10332   -285c vmlinux
> 
> The new option appears in "Processor type and features", only when
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED is defined.
> 
> This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is based on previous
> work done by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

Thanks for working on this.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

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