linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation.

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Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:18:03 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Steve Brokenshire <sbrokenshire@...tia.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation.


On Sunday 2009-01-18 22:15, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:04:16 +0100
>> Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
>[]
>>> Can I ask you to redo this patch.
>>> I want a way to swith off compression, but it should default be
>>> enable. So if KBUILD_MODULE_NOCOMPRESS is undefined we will compress
>>> the modules when we install them.
>> 
>> especially since the decompression is an option for the module tools,
>> it should be an option for the kernel... 
>> since it does add a dependency for the module tools (and one that you
>> might not need; for example I disabled it just to remove a build
>> requires)
>
>By the way, I for one use busybox for initramfs stuff, since a long
>time ago.  And it (still?) does not support decompression of kernel
>modules, as of the latest (1.13) version...  I don't think I'm alone
>using busybox this way, and it looks like decompression support
>should be added to it first, and next to the kernel.. ;)

If we went by that metric, the kernel would still be in its infancy.
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