On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:30:22PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: (This mail is easier to reply to with the quoting upside down and inside out 8-)
> linux is somewhat bigger. That doesn't appear to be the case to me.. Lets compare apples with apples.. > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 22957 May 17 12:26 ether8390.8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10052 Feb 25 04:46 8390.o > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 36009 May 17 12:26 ether82557.8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29204 Feb 25 04:46 eepro100.o > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 58000 May 17 12:26 etherwavelan.8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27096 Feb 25 04:46 wavelan.o Each time, the Linux driver is smaller.. > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 5243 May 17 12:26 ether2000.8 > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 44995 May 17 12:26 ether2114x.8 > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 6552 May 17 12:26 ether589.8 > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 18197 May 17 12:26 ether79c970.8 > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 9079 May 17 12:26 ether8003.8 > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 7845 May 17 12:26 etherec2t.8 > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 53022 May 17 12:26 etherelnk3.8 > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 20364 May 17 12:26 ethermedium.8 > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 2750 May 17 12:26 ethersink.8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33640 Feb 25 04:46 arlan.o > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62460 Feb 25 04:46 arlan-proc.o > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29364 Feb 25 04:46 sungem.o > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23868 Feb 25 04:46 sunhme.o These ones don't pair against each other, and comparing sizes of apples and oranges.... > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13212 Feb 25 04:46 aironet4500_card.o > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126868 Feb 25 04:46 aironet4500_core.o > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90660 Feb 25 04:46 aironet4500_proc.o This driver could win prizes for bad taste. There's so much crap in there that can be cleaned up. I think the only reason no-one has done it is that there's a better driver for the same hardware in the pcmcia-cs package. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs
