From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754492Ab1L2REE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:04:04 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34109 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752065Ab1L2REB (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:04:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4EFC9DEC.40302@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:05:48 +0100 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules References: <1325173819-26274-1-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> <4EFC9872.7000708@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dne 29.12.2011 17:55, Lucas De Marchi napsal(a): > Sure, but it has the same problem of running depmod twice. I was > thinking that compressed modules might be useful for others, not > developing kmod. At least I know Archlinux uses gzipped modules by > default and probably gentoo guys, too. And what's the benefit to users of Archlinux / Gentoo? Do they also compress libraries in /usr/lib? :) Michal