Subject: Re: Changes for proplib to reduce kernel bloat
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/10/2006 10:28:56
On May 9, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Simon Burge wrote:
> Is that something that install kernels, an embedded board, or my pc532
> will need to do (now or ever)?
Yes. Then plan going forward is to replace things like cfdata with
dictionaries.
Note, there is also the potential to reduce code footprint, as well.
In the future, it will be possible to replace autoconfiguration
matching functions with a generic routine that simply compares two
dictionaries in a certain way.
-- thorpej