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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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