Subject: Re: Sharing MII and I2C code in ethernet drivers
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/21/1997 14:51:13
On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 12:44:41 -0700 (PDT)
Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
> > How many kilobytes does removing an unneeded SCSI driver save?
>
> Oh, close to 150. :-)
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cjs wsrc 147480 Sep 21 01:45 ncr.o
Compared with this one:
-rw-r--r-- 1 thorpej source 9622 Sep 7 17:53 bha.o
Or how about this Ethernet driver:
-rw-r--r-- 1 thorpej source 6073 Sep 7 17:59 if_el.o
Are we going to say - "No, don't make that an option; it's just to small
for us to care about it..." ? :-)
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