On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:23:58AM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: > On 29.12.2011 18:21, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 01:50:18PM -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > > > Add target in Makefile to compress the module after it's installed. > > > Module-init-tools and libkmod can handle gzipped modules. > > > > > > This is not much useful for distributions because the package will gzip > > > the modules and call depmod in a install rule. > > > > It might actually be a worthwhile thing for distributions. > > > > For a Fedora kernel, gzipping modules saves around 80MB of diskspace per > > installed kernel. That the RPM is compressed is irrelevant, the on-disk > > footprint is more interesting, given that the bulk of the modules installed > > will never even be loaded. > > But it kills performance of the tools. How often do you run depmod ? If modprobe is a bottleneck, you have other problems. Dave -- 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
