On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:30:35PM -0800, Joe Millenbach wrote:

The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This
saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway.
bloat-o-meter output is below.

The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on
TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY
layer.  Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate
symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than
"depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies.

bloat-o-meter output filtered to not show removed entries with awk
'$3 != "-"' as the list was very long.

add/remove: 0/385 grow/shrink: 2/18 up/down: 14/-54016 (-54002)
function                                     old     new   delta
chr_dev_init                                 193     205     +12
selinux_setprocattr                         1167    1169      +2
static.__warned                              557     556      -1
start_kernel                                 840     835      -5
proc_root_init                               167     162      -5
unregister_console                           165     157      -8
sys_setsid                                   213     205      -8
sys_vhangup                                   37      21     -16
daemonize                                    689     673     -16
t_stop                                        72      54     -18
t_next                                       129     108     -21
static.do_acct_process                       838     806     -32
release_task                                1157    1125     -32
do_exit                                     2325    2288     -37
t_start                                      269     221     -48
static.__func__                            18289   18219     -70
do_task_stat                                2962    2892     -70
flush_unauthorized_files                     740     614    -126
static._rs                                  1440    1280    -160
static.__key                                8560    8384    -176

Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

This is a nice idea, but I feel it's a bit too late in the 3.8 merge
window cycle for me to add this to linux-next at this point in time.

Can you rediff this once 3.8-rc1 is out and send it to me then?  That
way we can get a lot more testing in linux-next in order to make sure
it's ready for 3.9?

thanks,

greg k-h