That means that the only real cause of angst might be (a) trying to fit
a rescue kernel on a floppy disk along with rescue tools, and (b)
embedded systems. For the general case (and remember that Linus tends
to like optimizing for the general case), the cost/benefit ratio for
having text description of pci devices is in favor of keeping the text
descriptions. I imagine if someone came up with a patch that removed
the __initdata table, in the interests of embedded or rescue disk
kernels, either (a) Linus would accept it, or (b) it would be trivial to
maintain separately outside of the kernel. Either way, it's a lot of
discussion over not a fairly minor point.
- Ted
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