From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from starfish.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.166]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TFvi1-0001JJ-IN for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:35:33 +0200 Received: (qmail 24157 invoked by uid 1003); 23 Sep 2012 23:22:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.212.226.128?) (philip@opensdr.com@98.191.4.50) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 23 Sep 2012 23:22:45 -0000 Message-ID: <505F99C3.1030409@balister.org> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:22:43 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton References: <1348436710.4444.247.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> <1540243.ihgQ8YivHP@helios> In-Reply-To: <1540243.ihgQ8YivHP@helios> Cc: Phil Blundell , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: Allow modules.tar.gz generation to be inhibited X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:35:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/23/2012 06:20 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Sunday 23 September 2012 22:45:10 Phil Blundell wrote: >> The modules.tar.gz archive is sometimes of no value and it can take >> a noticeable time to build if many modules were enabled in the kernel >> configuration. The extraneous file also contributes to deploy/ clutter >> and is a waste of disk space. >> >> Allow it to be suppressed by setting KERNEL_DEPLOY_MODULE_TARBALL=0. > > I'm wondering, does anyone still find this file useful? I've used it to put modules in rootfs when there is a new kernel version and I do not have easy access to packages feeds. This speeds testing. Philip