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

[Rusty Russell]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 09:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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

Reproduced here: that's the .comment section getting a little larger.

This gets stripped in building arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin, and hence
arch/i386/boot/bzImage.

So, the patch is just churn AFAICT.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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