Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

2008-06-23 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 21:11, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 20:22 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Morton has been saying recently that we need an 'embedded maintainer', to take responsibility for 'embedded issues' in the core

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

2008-06-23 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Thursday 01 May 2008 12:41, Andi Kleen wrote: To a large extent, I agree. I certainly don't want to focus solely on code size; there's a lot more to embedded Linux than that. But it _is_ Not only code size, far more important is dynamic memory consumption. [admittedly we right now lack

Re: Recommendation for activating a deferred module init in the kernel

2008-06-23 Thread Tim Bird
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Tim Bird wrote: I agree. When you say have the application call modprobe directly, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I simply meant that you can fork and exec modprobe itself (or use system() but that would require a working shell). This would save the need

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

2008-06-23 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:22:10PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008 21:11, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 20:22 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Morton has been saying recently that we need an 'embedded

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

2008-06-23 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:12:30PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Monday 23 June 2008 20:57, Sam Ravnborg wrote: I agree. And if we do want to pay attention to pure code size, there are other approaches -- like --gc-sections I have some patches in this area too. Were submitted to