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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does
From:       "David S. Miller" <davem () redhat ! com>
Date:       2002-01-31 23:45:47
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   From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
   Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:24:10 +0000 (GMT)

   > As a side note, this thing is so tiny (less than 4K on sparc64!) so
   > why don't we just include it unconditionally instead of having all
   > of this "turn it on for these drivers" stuff?
   
   Because 100 4K drivers suddenly becomes 0.5Mb.

However this isn't a driver, the crc library stuff is more akin to
"strlen()".  Are you suggesting to provide a CONFIG_STRINGOPS=n
too?  I wish you luck building that kernel :-)


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