On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:58 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
quoted text
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:37:19AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:39 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > threadinfo-ool.patch: doesnt this break the scheduler? 
> > 
> > It didn't when I wrote it, 3+ years ago. But I'm sure it needs to be
> > revisited.
> > 
> > > tiny-cflags.patch: obsolete? Isnt CFLAGS already extendable? Question to 
> > > Sam i guess.
> And what was the question then?
> 
> We have today the possibility to say:
> make KCFLAGS=-whatever
> 
> and we have plenty of kconfig adjustmenst affecting the gcc options.
> 
> I do not know if this covers it.

Basically the idea was you could specify various flags that affected
kernel size, in particular overriding the various bloated alignment
defaults.

If I were to do this today (if they haven't already become the default),
I'd probably add a config var to request minimal alignment instead.

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