Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-12 Thread Robin Getz
On Thu 9 Oct 2008 19:56, Tim Bird pondered: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The building blocks that would be useful are IMHO: > > - a make target that generates a report for one kernel > > (like the checkstack or export_report targets) > > - a script that compares two such reports and outputs the > >

Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Tim Bird wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The building blocks that would be useful are IMHO: > > - a make target that generates a report for one kernel > > (like the checkstack or export_report targets) > > - a script that compares two such reports and outputs the > > size di

Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-09 Thread Tim Bird
Adrian Bunk wrote: > The building blocks that would be useful are IMHO: > - a make target that generates a report for one kernel > (like the checkstack or export_report targets) > - a script that compares two such reports and outputs the > size differences > > That's also easy to do, and if th

Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-09 Thread Robin Getz
On Thu 9 Oct 2008 11:21, Adrian Bunk pondered: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:19:36PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > I've been thinking about a tool that might be useful > > to track kernel size changes. I'm posting this > > Request For Comments to get feedback, and determine > > if this is something th

Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-09 Thread Jörn Engel
On Thu, 9 October 2008 18:21:51 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The building blocks that would be useful are IMHO: > - a make target that generates a report for one kernel > (like the checkstack or export_report targets) > - a script that compares two such reports and outputs the > size differen

Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:19:36PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > I've been thinking about a tool that might be useful > to track kernel size changes. I'm posting this > Request For Comments to get feedback, and determine > if this is something that would be worthwhile to > pursue. > > What I envision

Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-08 Thread Tim Bird
Chris Snook wrote: > The kernel build system is supposed to be stateless, and integrating > this with make would mess that up. > If your goal is to get more people > to use Bloatwatch Not really. Bloatwatch is a means to an end. It's only the end I care about, which is more visibility into kerne

Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-08 Thread Chris Snook
Tim Bird wrote: I've been thinking about a tool that might be useful to track kernel size changes. I'm posting this Request For Comments to get feedback, and determine if this is something that would be worthwhile to pursue. What I envision is some new kernel build targets, specifically related

RFC - size tool for kernel build system

2008-10-07 Thread Tim Bird
I've been thinking about a tool that might be useful to track kernel size changes. I'm posting this Request For Comments to get feedback, and determine if this is something that would be worthwhile to pursue. What I envision is some new kernel build targets, specifically related to gathering size