From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759939AbXGSLIQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:08:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750889AbXGSLIG (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:08:06 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:55977 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169AbXGSLIE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:08:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:13:40 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andi Kleen , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [58/58] x86: remove support for the Rise CPU Message-ID: <20070719121340.08da9bbf@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070719104825.GR3801@stusta.de> References: <200707191154.642492000@suse.de> <20070719095545.8AB5914E06@wotan.suse.de> <20070719114529.6fcd4022@the-village.bc.nu> <20070719104825.GR3801@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > - It's not only code, it also bloats everyone's kernel image. Its a miniscule piece of code that is discarded on boot. Yes it might make the image 100 bytes longer, but have you priced a 160GB disk recently. I don't think 100 bytes of disk and 0 of memory really is worth saving for any risk at all. Its not even worth the time to apply the patch. > - All it did was to fiddle with capabilities - if any computer with > a Rise cpu running Linux actually exists it should still work. > - It's highly unlikely that we had any user of this code. But you've no idea if this is true. Probably some of our other drivers are bigger and have less users. Alan