Am 09.04.2015 um 16:36 schrieb Andrew: ... > > So let's store both packed modules + unpacked on server side, as we > decided earlier. > Packed modules will be suitable for routers with enough storage space; > unpacked - for tiny systems. > I just voting against excluding packed modules in prefer to unpacked > tree. It'll break usability in many cases.
That is fine with me, let's just unpack in a first step as I did in branch 5.1.4-rc2 we can decide to move to squashfs later. > .. >> I am building moddb of course, and for the people requiring extra >> modules they will be able to include them easily. > I mean moddb save/load logic. It'll be unneeded in most cases and empty, > but it'll leave possibility to load custom modules. We will always need this functionality, I will not touch it. ... >> They are, but of course they cannot be replaced automatically if they >> are not in either the tarball, the squashfs or in the modules directory. > They'll be in modules directory because they'll be in moddb. Yes, but they will not be recent, so they might break the system. > > As I said, I expect that squash will be mounted on boot on > /lib/modules/<kernel version>, then - modules probing will be ran, then > - modules will be copied to /etc/modules, exclusions for them will be > added to moddb (to not store these modules in moddb), and then - unmount > squash and re-probe modules from /etc/modules (for loading custom modules). I have not touched the boot process on purpose. If you decide to change it, be my guest. > ... > For me, squashfs will be also better than tarball. It'll remove need of > module autoprobing, and it'll make system upgrade easier than with > tarball (esp. for system with NICs that aren't in moddb). I understand cheers ET
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