From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:21:02 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Michal Marek , Sam Ravnborg , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules Message-ID: <20111229172101.GB4101@redhat.com> References: <1325173819-26274-1-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1325173819-26274-1-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 01:50:18PM -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > Add target in Makefile to compress the module after it's installed. > Module-init-tools and libkmod can handle gzipped modules. > > This is not much useful for distributions because the package will gzip > the modules and call depmod in a install rule. It might actually be a worthwhile thing for distributions. For a Fedora kernel, gzipping modules saves around 80MB of diskspace per installed kernel. That the RPM is compressed is irrelevant, the on-disk footprint is more interesting, given that the bulk of the modules installed will never even be loaded. Dave