[PATCH/RFC 1/2] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Make drm support modular

Alexandre Courbot gnurou at gmail.com
Sun Jun 7 19:09:42 PDT 2015


On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 05:41:34PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Friday 29 May 2015 15:25:25 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
>> >
>> > Make drm support modular to reduce kernel size (-620 KiB):
>> >
>> >        text    data     bss     dec     hex   filename
>> >     12211122 1392076  338520 13941718  d4bbd6 vmlinux.before
>> >     11581470 1387196  338264 13306930  cb0c32 vmlinux.after
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
>> > ---
>> > Slightly controversial:
>> >   - Does anyone need drm for boot testing?
>>
>> Only the tegra driver is affected, so let's ask the tegra
>> maintainers.
>
> As a matter of fact I do most of the DRM testing on boot using the
> built-in driver. However I can do that easily using tegra_defconfig so
> I'm fine with this change.
>
> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>

Looks good to me to, Nouveau works better as a module anyway. :)

Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>



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