In article <Pine.NEB.3.93.970921112333.12901N-100000@gnostic.cynic.net> you write:
> > I think I'd like (and even for PHY available on the board I don't use), to
> > make the kernel binary and memory usage smaller.
> 
> How many kilobytes of memory will this save?
> 
> We are adding a rather significant amount of mess to the config
> file for this capability.

Not to mention the code to implement this stuff as a bus, which, it
seems to me, could even mean the binary would would grow rather than
shrink.