Re: [PATCH] Drop exported symbols list if !modules

[Andrew Morton]

Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 09:07, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:45:01AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 06:55, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > > Drop ksyms if we've built without module support
> > > > 
> > > > From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Subject: Re: 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2
> > > 
> > > Other than saving a little compile time, does this actually do anything?
> > > 
> > > I'm not against it, I just don't think I see the point.
> > 
> > Well it obviously saves memory and image size too;
> 
> Please measure it.  It's not obvious to me at all.

Miniscule savings

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3221815  862456       0 4084271  3e522f vmlinux-before
3221591  862456       0 4084047  3e514f vmlinux-after

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