Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270686AbTHAHMy (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 03:12:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275074AbTHAHMy (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 03:12:54 -0400 Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.115]:56583 "HELO smtp018.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270686AbTHAHMv (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 03:12:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 04:13:25 -0300 From: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi To: Pawel Kot Cc: szepe@pinerecords.com, kaos@ocs.com.au, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: module-init-tools don't support gzipped modules. Message-Id: <20030801041325.2f350944.vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> In-Reply-To: References: <20030731091909.GK12849@louise.pinerecords.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1323 Lines: 38 On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:52:28 +0200 (CEST), Pawel Kot wrote: >On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote: > >> > [kaos@ocs.com.au] >> > >> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:46:23 +1000, >> > Rusty Russell wrote: >> > >I don't want to require zlib, though. The modutils I have >(Debian)> > >doesn't support it, either. >> > >> > Really? modutils 2.4: ./configure --enable-zlib >> >> Keith, I believe Rusty meant the standard Debian package had binaries >> compiled w/o '--enable-zlib'. >> >> (And so has Slackware btw.) > >Slackware since 8.0 uses compression for the kernel modules by >default and uses --enable-zlib for modutils. >See: >ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/source/a/modutils/ >modutils.SlackBuild yes, originally I wrote the mail, commenting on the necessity of gzip, because of mails that interchanges with Patrick Volkerding about the inclusion of 2.6. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.vmlinuz.com.ar http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/