Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757812AbZARVSU (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:18:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755974AbZARVSH (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:18:07 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:53547 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755607AbZARVSF (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:18:05 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:18:03 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Michael Tokarev cc: Arjan van de Ven , Sam Ravnborg , Steve Brokenshire , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation. In-Reply-To: <49739BFA.4030609@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Message-ID: References: <20080225214209.a3f79327.sbrokenshire@xestia.co.uk> <20080226112840.GA29465@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20081226194833.GA8306@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20090118210416.GE2978@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20090118130908.390eb07b@infradead.org> <49739BFA.4030609@msgid.tls.msk.ru> 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: 1302 Lines: 29 On Sunday 2009-01-18 22:15, Michael Tokarev wrote: >Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:04:16 +0100 >> Sam Ravnborg wrote: >[] >>> Can I ask you to redo this patch. >>> I want a way to swith off compression, but it should default be >>> enable. So if KBUILD_MODULE_NOCOMPRESS is undefined we will compress >>> the modules when we install them. >> >> especially since the decompression is an option for the module tools, >> it should be an option for the kernel... >> since it does add a dependency for the module tools (and one that you >> might not need; for example I disabled it just to remove a build >> requires) > >By the way, I for one use busybox for initramfs stuff, since a long >time ago. And it (still?) does not support decompression of kernel >modules, as of the latest (1.13) version... I don't think I'm alone >using busybox this way, and it looks like decompression support >should be added to it first, and next to the kernel.. ;) If we went by that metric, the kernel would still be in its infancy. -- 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/