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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