de-modularising for the win!

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Fri Oct 3 16:03:45 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions.
>>
>> Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.)
>
> Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on
> top of yours):
>
> diff --git a/config-generic b/config-generic
> index 0f43c42..de33831 100644
> --- a/config-generic
> +++ b/config-generic
> @@ -640,14 +640,14 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y
>  CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m
>  CONFIG_DM_DEBUG=y
>  # CONFIG_DM_DELAY is not set
> -CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=m
> +CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=y
>  CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH=m
>  CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_EMC=m
>  CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_HP=m
>  CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_RDAC=m
> -CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=m
> +CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y
>  CONFIG_DM_UEVENT=y
> -CONFIG_DM_ZERO=m
> +CONFIG_DM_ZERO=y
>

Not that I object to this or anything of the sort, but it would be nice
if when people were asking for things to be built-in, to see the size
difference on vmlinux on a Fedora build with it enabled.

regards, Kyle




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