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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
