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Old 15th April 2012
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Originally Posted by raindog308 View Post
I'm wondering if I'm wasting my time or if I would be able to actually recover a usable amount. If I'm likely to free 50K, I won't bother. If it might free 5MB, I'll give it a shot.
I don't believe you would save gigabytes of space, possibly not even one. Traffic in the misc@ archives will say the same.

Culturally, the project severely frowns upon kernel squeezing & customization (covered in Section 5.6 of the FAQ...) to the point that the developers will not even talk to anyone filing problem reports using custom kernels.

Unless you are intimately knowledgeable about kernel internals is this worth the effort. Personally, I wouldn't bother. It goes too far against the project's recommendations, & I have found that the project's dictates are well grounded.
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