Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation.

Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-26T19:47:16Z

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:30:19PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 2008-02-26 12:28, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >>
> >> (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)
> >>
> >> This patch allows kernel modules to be compressed when 'make
> >> modules_install' is run after being copied to
> >> the /lib/module/<version>/<...> directory which is useful if you have
> >> module-init-tools installed with --enable-zlib. This patch adds an
> >> option (MODULE_COMPRESS) to the kernel configuration file (specifically
> >> init/Kconfig) so that the kernel modules will compressed if
> >> MODULE_COMPRESS is set.
>
> I recently started compressing my kernel modules and that saved me
> at least 70 MB of disk space on mostlyallmodconfig.
> (And no, the argument of disks being cheap is not so true with
> CF or SSD.)
> Distro is lazy and wants to wait for upstream to have it,
> so is there any chance of getting this proposal in?

Steve said he wanted to try to make the solution more
scalable so I am awaiting a new patch.

Sam