Re: [PATCH] x86: fix unconditional arch/x86/kernel/pcspeaker.c?compiling

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 18 January 2008 11:10:19 Matt Mackall wrote:
> >     * Disable support for readahead, page writeback, pdflush and swap
> >       when we have no storage at all (typically booting from an
> >       initramfs). This corresponds to 69 KB of source code!
>
> That'd be nice, yes. It would probably make sense to be able to disable
> just readahead support when we're working with only solid-state devices.

Very nice.  From a UI standpoint, shouldn't disabling the block layer take at 
least some of that out?  (Or disabling the block layer and all network 
filesystems.  /me tries to remember whether jffs2 depends on the block layer.  
Now that qemu can fake an mtd, I really need to start playing with that...)

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.
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