On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:05:36 +0200 (EET) "Ilpo Järvinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:47:18 +0200 "Ilpo Järvinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > vmlinux.o: > > > 62 functions changed, 66 bytes added, 10935 bytes removed, diff: -10869 > > > > > > ...+ these to lib/jhash.o: > > > jhash_3words: 112 > > > jhash2: 276 > > > jhash: 475 > > > > > > select for networking code might need a more fine-grained approach. > > > > It should be possible to use a modular jhash.ko. The things which you > > have identified as clients of the jhash library are usually loaded as > > modules. > > But in the case where someone does (say) NFSD=y we do need jhash.o linked > > into > > vmlinux also. This is doable in Kconfig but I always forget how. > > Ok, even though its not that likely that one lives without e.g. > net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c or net/netlink/af_netlink.c? Sure, the number of people who will want CONFIG_JHASH=n is very small. > But maybe > some guys "really know what they are doing" and can come up with config > that would be able to build it as module (for other than proof-of-concept > uses I mean)... :-/ > > > Adrian, Sam and Randy are the repositories of knowledge here ;) > > Thanks, I'll consult them in this. I've never needed to do any Kconfig > stuff so far so it's no surprise I have very little clue... :-) Thanks. If it gets messy I'd just put lib/jhash.o in obj-y. I assume it's pretty small. > I've one question for you Andrew, how would you like this kind of > cross-subsys toucher to be merged, through you directly I suppose? Sure, I can scrounge around for appropriate reviews and acks and can make sure that nobody's pending work gets disrupted. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
