Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:33:53PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> >My gut feeling is that the influence of this kind of linux-tiny patches 
> >is hardly noticably compared to the overall code size development, but 
> >if you have numbers that prove me wrong just point me to them and I'll 
> >stand corrected.
> >
> >cu
> >Adrian
> >
> >BTW: I'm not insisting on "between 2.6.16 and 2.6.26", that's just some
> >     timeframe big enough for showing general trends.
> 
> Current kernels are too big, they tend to be about 1MB (ignoring lzma or
> gz compression), a couple of years back an ide- and network-enabled
> kernel with 8139too (or whatever -nic you use in qemu nowadays) was at
> least 30% smaller.

No disagreement that the kernel could (and should) become smaller for
situations where the kernel size matters.

My question is only about whether *this kind of patches* is the correct 
approach.

cu
Adrian

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