On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgo...@redhat.com> wrote: > In my experience, trying to keep foot-print small has kind of been a > losing battle. > > - People want more functionality in second kernel, want to dump to more > complicated IO stacks and that requires pulling in more drivers, > more libraries, more daemons, more user space tools and what not. > > - Now we use dracut generated initramfs and it has been growing in size. > Now systemd has been pulled in too. > > - Drivers keep on increasing their memory usage.
If the dump file will be only put one place, why should all the drivers for all devices get loaded? for example: dump will be on disk with one scsi controller, can you only load driver that contoller? and forget about all other storage controller and network etc drivers. Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
