Re: [PATCH] modules: CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS: add hint that userspace support may easily be missing.

Michal Marek
2015-06-03T12:04:35Z

On 2015-06-01 08:26, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just had a not so nice experience
>> when finally upgrading to a new 4.1-rc5
>> with CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS newly enabled -
>> userspace binary parts (kmod 18 or 20 in my case)
>> did not have compression enabled
>> (at least on Debian 8pre, vs. encountering it enabled on FC21)
>> since it does not seem to be
>> the default build configuration of kmod (yet?).
>
> Sure. Let's get the maintainers to insert the actual version required
> in the help text though.

I'm not a maintainer of kmod, but the text should probably end with "If
unsure, say N."

Michal