Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation.

Willy Tarreau
2008-02-25T22:19:58Z

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:17:23PM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Steve Brokenshire:
> > Hi,
> >
> > (I've sent this to the linux-kbuild and linux-kernel lists as this
> > patch modifies the Makefile.modinst file. I also don't subscribe to the
> > linux-kbuild and linux-kernel mailing lists so can I have any replies
> > CC'ed to me please)
>
> And what if i like bzip2 (yea sometimes better) or 7zip (better if !EMBEDDED)
> or whatever?
>
> It's pure user/distro question.

not exactly, as only gzip is supported by module-init-tools. However,
if you come up with a patch to implement lzma or equivalent for
module-init-tools, it may be useful.

Willy