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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation.
    On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:22:03AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
    > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:14:55AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:21:38PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
    >...
    > > > Have you tried keeping the module names intact (.ko, not .ko.gz) ?
    > > > It's what I was doing with modutils in 2.4 and what I'm still doing
    > > > with module-init-tools in 2.6. While I don't particularly use mkinitrd,
    > > > I think that keeping the name intact is preferable and should help.
    > >
    > > How would you see if, and if yes with what program, a module was
    > > compressed if the name is kept intact?
    >
    > depmod/modinfo/insmod/modprobe already know it. And quite honnestly,
    > I don't know about any other program which really needs to process
    > those files once installed. Well, maybe ksymoops, but I'd have to
    > check, as I don't recall having ever been annoyed with this.
    >...

    depmod/modinfo/insmod/modprobe know only if you compile
    module-init-tools with zlib support.

    And what about the busybox versions?

    A different name would e.g.:
    - easily allow proper error handling if the userspace modules program
    doesn't support the compression used
    - better scale to support additional compressions
    - give the user a hint what is happening and what might be the problem
    when anythig goes wrong

    > Regards,
    > Willy

    cu
    Adrian

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    "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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