pete · August 23, 2013 03:50 · Aug 23, 2013
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+I was waiting for a Linux kernel to build.  It seems to take
+longer to configure a new kernel every time, like the number
+of options have been steadily increasing.  I thought I might
+be hallucinating, you know?  Maybe I have just gotten
+impatient and the bloat wasn't that bad.  Or maybe it is
+the case that the options have gotten horribly numerous and
+increasingly arcane.  In any case, I did this:
+
+  for m in $list_of_linux_machines_here; do
+    ssh $m wc -l '/usr/src/linux-*/.config'
+  done | grep -v total | sort -n | tee /tmp/kconfigs
+
+config.wc-l is the output of that.  But the results showed
+different numbers for the same version (this is across
+different machines, remember), and it looks to be due to
+options selected.  The kernel finished building before I
+could figure out if there was a way to actually measure the
+number of options that are presented.  (How arcane they
+are is inherently subjective.)  So I have added more
+meaningless content to the internet, and these numbers mean
+nothing.
diff --git a/config.wc-l b/config.wc-l
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+3648 /usr/src/linux-2.6.32.5/.config
+3801 /usr/src/linux-2.6.34.1/.config
+3832 /usr/src/linux-2.6.36.2/.config
+4022 /usr/src/linux-2.6.38.5/.config
+4106 /usr/src/linux-3.5.4/.config
+4208 /usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config
+4227 /usr/src/linux-2.6.38.5/.config
+4448 /usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config
+4478 /usr/src/linux-2.6.39.3/.config
+4642 /usr/src/linux-3.6.8/.config
+4730 /usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config
+4838 /usr/src/linux-3.7.1/.config
+5073 /usr/src/linux-3.5.4/.config