From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: Allow modules.tar.gz generation to be inhibited
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:22:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <505F99C3.1030409@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1540243.ihgQ8YivHP@helios>
On 09/23/2012 06:20 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Sunday 23 September 2012 22:45:10 Phil Blundell wrote:
>> The modules.tar.gz archive is sometimes of no value and it can take
>> a noticeable time to build if many modules were enabled in the kernel
>> configuration. The extraneous file also contributes to deploy/ clutter
>> and is a waste of disk space.
>>
>> Allow it to be suppressed by setting KERNEL_DEPLOY_MODULE_TARBALL=0.
>
> I'm wondering, does anyone still find this file useful?
I've used it to put modules in rootfs when there is a new kernel version
and I do not have easy access to packages feeds. This speeds testing.
Philip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-23 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-23 21:45 [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: Allow modules.tar.gz generation to be inhibited Phil Blundell
2012-09-23 22:20 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-09-23 23:22 ` Philip Balister [this message]
2012-09-24 8:36 ` Burton, Ross
2012-09-24 9:56 ` Richard Purdie
2012-09-24 12:05 ` Philip Balister
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