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For consideration:
* Add NVDIMM support - Enables greater testing, mambo device.
* Add IPv6 support built in + additional modules - Because it's 2018 maan.
* Add DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT - Let's see what breaks.
* Add PPC_MEMTRACE - Small powernv debugfs driver for getting hardware traces.
* Add MEMORY_FAILURE - Machine check exceptions can now drive memory failure.
* Turn on FANOTIFY - This is the current filesystem notification feature.
* Turn on SCOM_DEBUGFS - Handy for hardware/firmware debugging, security risk?
* Turn on async SCSI scanning - Let's see what breaks.
* Add MLX5 driver as a module - Popular demand.
* Add CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF_VPMSUM - POWER8 T10DIF acceleration.
* Make a bunch of USB hid drivers modules.
* Make SCSI SG, SR, and FC modules - FC is huge.
* Make video drivers except AST GPU modules - Also huge.
* Make PCI serial driver a module - Uncommon.
* Make more things modules, NFS FS, RAM disk, netconsole, MS-DOS fs.
* Get rid of /dev/port - Not used.
* Remove PPS and PTP subsystms - Unusual.
* Remove legacy BSD ttys - Long dead.
* Remove IDE - Deprecated and replaced with ATA.
* Remove WIRELESS - Until we get POWER9 laptops.
* Remove RAW - Long deprecated in favour of direct IO.
* Remove floppy, parport, and PS2 input devices - not supported.
* Remove virtio drivers, ballooning - We're host only.
* Remove PPP - Sorry Paulus.
This results in a significantly smaller vmlinux:
text data bss dec filename
13143383 5277944 1317856 19739183 vanilla
12263281 4852074 1341720 18457075 patched
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.