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Message-ID: <p73ps0b93ph.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date: 21 Sep 2007 22:13:46 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
mchan@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com> writes:
>
> I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware,
> if patches will be accepted:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 17653 109968 240 127861 1f375 drivers/net/acenic.o
> 6628 120448 4 127080 1f068 drivers/net/dgrs.o
> ^^^^^^
Just change the makefiles to always install gzip'ed modules
modutils knows how to unzip them on the fly.
That will catch all the firmware and all the other code too.
-Andi
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