[pvrusb2] Re: pvrusb2 Digest, Vol 3, Issue 3

[Mike Isely]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:

>
>
> --- pvrusb2-request at isely.net wrote:
>
>> Interesting coincidence - this week's edition of the
>> kernel page on
>> lwn.net has a discussion about using -Os to build
>> the kernel.  It seems
>> that there is simply no downside to doing this and
>> one wonder why it isn't
>> the default.
>>
>> Yes the driver is built outside of the kernel, but I
>> had been presuming
>> that it should be hooking up with whatever
>> configuration was used to build
>> the kernel - config settings, header files, and
>> compilation flags.  That
>> would only seem to make sense.  However you raise a
>> good point and I'll
>> look into it.
>
> Mike, I just tried and on my linux box I am getting
> all optimisations I expect.
> I found out that during my cross build someone sets -e
> so the kernel flags do not take effect. No idea yet
> why this is done.
>

OK.

I'm still going to look into this though.  It's always good to learn 
something new and I think I have a bit more to learn about kbuild.

   -Mike

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