Hi, On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 01:19:46PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > But disappointing that Debian doesn't configure with it, and there's no > > easy way to check it. Looks like Ubuntu vivid is the same. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772628 Crap, that URL now is an implicit strong suggestion that I didn't do my homework ;) (it already described large parts prior to me regurgitating this issue due to being unaware of this history here). Thanks to R.Russell for a very nice shortening and extension of the help text! Since the issue of .gz vs. .xz redundancy came up (with people "threatening" to support only one alternative), I want to mention that when having to choose one I'd tend to activating the .xz library dependency: - while it has higher compression demands, hardware is getting beefier all the time, thus it should not matter (especially vs. the dominantly many decompression runs) - it's simply the "more modern" and future-proof option, thus it should be favoured slightly since the system as a whole would want to make reasonably quick development/evolution "forward progress" rather than sticking to less favourable mechanisms - .xz has been available for some time already i.e. the time window of "distro support maturity" is a given [a counter-point might be that module-init-tools supports .gz only, but then modern binary setups which chose .xz would already have been shipped with kmod only] OK, having said that, I'm unsure what to think of the Debian package's decision to not support compression so far (and that even in times where kmod does not provide a runtime option yet to query the actual set of support flags). >From a library dependency POV it may be attractive to skip compression, and since Debian usually has a fixed setup where non-compressed files are a given, this seems like a valid choice. It's just that for e.g. these situations: - people with many custom kernels installed - space-constrained systems this is quite a nuisance that is a wee bit too unexpected (/show-stopper) - took me roughly > 30 minutes to get it researched / resolved. Thanks, Andreas -- 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
