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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:23:58 +0100 From: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> To: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules On 29.12.2011 18:21, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 01:50:18PM -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > > Add target in Makefile to compress the module after it's installed. > > Module-init-tools and libkmod can handle gzipped modules. > > > > This is not much useful for distributions because the package will gzip > > the modules and call depmod in a install rule. > > It might actually be a worthwhile thing for distributions. > > For a Fedora kernel, gzipping modules saves around 80MB of diskspace per > installed kernel. That the RPM is compressed is irrelevant, the on-disk > footprint is more interesting, given that the bulk of the modules installed > will never even be loaded. But it kills performance of the tools. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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