Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762112AbXIUUbV (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:31:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756243AbXIUUbL (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:31:11 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-2-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.71]:12720 "EHLO sj-iport-2.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751267AbXIUUbJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:31:09 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,285,1186383600"; d="scan'208";a="401002415" To: Andi Kleen Cc: Denys Vlasenko , 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 X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information 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: Roland Dreier Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:31:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Andi Kleen's message of "21 Sep 2007 22:13:46 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.20 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2007 20:31:06.0803 (UTC) FILETIME=[565FE830:01C7FC8E] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-1; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim1004 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 463 Lines: 12 > Just change the makefiles to always install gzip'ed modules > modutils knows how to unzip them on the fly. But that leaves the uncompressed firmware blobs in .data that ends up in unswappable kernel memory. - R. - 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/