On Sunday 2009-01-18 22:15, Michael Tokarev wrote: >Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:04:16 +0100 >> Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >[] >>> Can I ask you to redo this patch. >>> I want a way to swith off compression, but it should default be >>> enable. So if KBUILD_MODULE_NOCOMPRESS is undefined we will compress >>> the modules when we install them. >> >> especially since the decompression is an option for the module tools, >> it should be an option for the kernel... >> since it does add a dependency for the module tools (and one that you >> might not need; for example I disabled it just to remove a build >> requires) > >By the way, I for one use busybox for initramfs stuff, since a long >time ago. And it (still?) does not support decompression of kernel >modules, as of the latest (1.13) version... I don't think I'm alone >using busybox this way, and it looks like decompression support >should be added to it first, and next to the kernel.. ;) If we went by that metric, the kernel would still be in its infancy. -- 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
