On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 10:31:50 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > For consideration: > > * Add NVDIMM support - Enables greater testing, mambo device. > * Add IPv6 support built in + additional modules - Because it's 2018 maan. > * Add DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT - Let's see what breaks. > * Add PPC_MEMTRACE - Small powernv debugfs driver for getting hardware traces. > * Add MEMORY_FAILURE - Machine check exceptions can now drive memory failure. > * Turn on FANOTIFY - This is the current filesystem notification feature. > * Turn on SCOM_DEBUGFS - Handy for hardware/firmware debugging, security risk? > * Turn on async SCSI scanning - Let's see what breaks. > * Add MLX5 driver as a module - Popular demand. > * Add CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF_VPMSUM - POWER8 T10DIF acceleration. > > * Make a bunch of USB hid drivers modules. > * Make SCSI SG, SR, and FC modules - FC is huge. > * Make video drivers except AST GPU modules - Also huge. > * Make PCI serial driver a module - Uncommon. > * Make more things modules, NFS FS, RAM disk, netconsole, MS-DOS fs. > > * Get rid of /dev/port - Not used. > * Remove PPS and PTP subsystms - Unusual. > * Remove legacy BSD ttys - Long dead. > * Remove IDE - Deprecated and replaced with ATA. > * Remove WIRELESS - Until we get POWER9 laptops. > * Remove RAW - Long deprecated in favour of direct IO. > * Remove floppy, parport, and PS2 input devices - not supported. > * Remove virtio drivers, ballooning - We're host only. > * Remove PPP - Sorry Paulus. > > This results in a significantly smaller vmlinux: > > text data bss dec filename > 13143383 5277944 1317856 19739183 vanilla > 12263281 4852074 1341720 18457075 patched > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/9a018fb1e14704fef39db05730599f cheers
