linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modules: CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS: add hint that userspace support may easily be missing.

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jun 2015 04:51:39 +0200
From:	Marco d'Itri <md@...ux.it>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bertrand Jacquin <beber@...eeweb.net>,
	linux-modules <linux-modules@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules: CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS: add hint that userspace
 support may easily be missing.

On Jun 04, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:

> But disappointing that Debian doesn't configure with it, and there's no
> easy way to check it.  Looks like Ubuntu vivid is the same.
> 
> Might be time to change the default in kmod?
Changing the default will not make me enable compression support, 
but providing interesting use cases maybe will.

Also, I see no point in enabling support for both gz and xz in kmod.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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