Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762214AbXIUUOB (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763450AbXIUUNu (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:13:50 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:59391 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761455AbXIUUNt (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:13:49 -0400 To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker References: <200709211201.24475.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709211803.55554.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20070921.104912.41646795.davem@davemloft.net> <200709211905.23946.vda.linux@googlemail.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: 21 Sep 2007 22:13:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200709211905.23946.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 16 Denys Vlasenko 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 - 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/