Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753119AbYLZXMt (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:12:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752308AbYLZXMl (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:12:41 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:56458 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752293AbYLZXMl (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:12:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:12:36 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Steve Brokenshire , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation. In-Reply-To: <20081226225748.GA25143@uranus.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: References: <20080225214209.a3f79327.sbrokenshire@xestia.co.uk> <20080226112840.GA29465@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20081226194833.GA8306@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20081226225748.GA25143@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LSU 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1406 Lines: 43 On Friday 2008-12-26 23:57, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>> >>>Steve said [in Feb 2008] he wanted to try to make the solution >>>more scalable so I am awaiting a new patch. >> >>Hm, all I needed was this patch. It might fire up some people, >>but it's got all the scalability I could think of.. > >Jan - there is obviously no way I could apply this patch >so late in the cycle. 2.6.29 just started, did not it. Even if not, just queue it for the next. >The original patch that made this a CONFIG option is >then much better as we avoid forcing new and untested >behaviour on the users. > >We all know that compressing the modules are simple. >And unless someone comes up with *very* good arguments >then we should just use gzip with default parameters. Besides the -9 flag, where would there be nondefault parameters? >If we go for the "keep the .ko extension but compress" >then someone needs to answer the obvious questions: > >- will this break on a typical distribution No; module-init-tools already uses gzopen even on uncompressed files. >- will this break busybox users I did not see any gzip support in there, so the answer is likely "yes, as usual". -- 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/