>> Add new configure option --enable-zlib-dynamic to allow linking zlib >> dynamically (e.g. opensuse installs libz.so.1 in /lib, so it's safe to >> do it there). > What is the rationale for enabling zlib support on a general purpose > distribution? > > -- > ciao, > Marco > A patch is floating on lkml to compress modules on install http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/26/288 It look it miss another time miss the entry point for 2.6.30 but that probably will come in a day. Compressed modules spare a lot of space on disk. On a previous message, this example was given > > >> 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.) Gilles -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
