April 22, 2016
3:02 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:37:13 +0900, Greg KH said:
As Josh says, this is fine, you just "burn" 4 bytes,
Are there stil any platforms left where that matters? Sure, when I started coding, an HP2114 had all of 8K of RAM, so wasting 4 bytes mattered. But I don't know of anything that will boot Linux and is still so storaged constrained that we care. Heck, even my fairly old wireless router has 128M of RAM on it - and even THERE the 8M of flash is a bigger constraint :)