2011/12/29 Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>: > Dne 29.12.2011 16:50, Lucas De Marchi napsal(a): >> Add target in Makefile to compress the module after it's installed. >> Module-init-tools and libkmod can handle gzipped modules. > > I am not convinced that this is a needed feature. Compressing elf files > means that depmod and modinfo need to read the whole compressed file > from disk and unpack it, while only a couple of bytes need to be read. How many times do you need to call depmod / modinfo? The operation that is used most of the time is to load modules. The reason for having modules gzipped is the same one as for kernel image: fast bootup on slow disks and less disk space used per installed kernel. Lucas De Marchi -- 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
