On Friday 2008-12-26 20:48, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> >> >> >> 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. Hm, all I needed was this patch. It might fire up some people, but it's got all the scalability I could think of.. commit b4a3e1c610c99d4e8b543b97fd722076c6f7c5dd Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Dec 10 20:39:21 2008 +0100 build: install modules compressed --- scripts/Makefile.modinst | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modinst b/scripts/Makefile.modinst index efa5d94..c3421a1 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.modinst +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modinst @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ __modinst: $(modules) @: quiet_cmd_modules_install = INSTALL $@ - cmd_modules_install = mkdir -p $(2); cp $@ $(2) ; $(mod_strip_cmd) $(2)/$(notdir $@) + cmd_modules_install = mkdir -p $(2); cp $@ $(2) ; $(mod_strip_cmd) $(2)/$(notdir $@); gzip -9f $(2)/$(notdir $@) # Modules built outside the kernel source tree go into extra by default INSTALL_MOD_DIR ?= extra -- 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
