Hi KP

Am 27.04.2015 um 16:57 schrieb kp kirchdoerfer:
Am Sonntag, 26. April 2015, 14:47:09 schrieb Mega:
Am 25.04.2015 um 18:36 schrieb kp kirchdoerfer:
Hi Gents;

..


There is at least one requirement: No half-implemented features, which only
adds more bytes.

I've reread the discussions how squashfs made it into the release, and it is
still my understanding that one goal was to  shrink the size needed by
packages carrying modules (initmod, moddb, modules.tgz); until now we have
only added one more with 11MB (modules.sqfs), while the three others are still
the same (not to mention that the kernel and busybox are somewhat larger due
to squahfs support)

As far as I am concerned, squashfs is not a requirement for me. It appears that a full set of modules is required to run hwdetect.


from Andrews commit message:
"initrd: add basic hw autodetect using squashfs

      initial realization. looks working. needs additional features (for
      ex.,
      list of nftables/iptables modules to copy from squash) before it'll
      completely replaces moddb."

We cannot completely remove moddb as _again_ small systems need e
reduced set of modules to be present and may not be able to run
hwdetect. There may be an empty moddb or a missing moddb for larger systems.

For those very small systems an initrd/initmod with all modules required will
be a better to go. If they are too small to run hwdetect, they are most
probably that small, that the required modules are more or less fixed.

I don't agree as it would require a number of different initmods and IMHO initmod is too overloaded anyway. Removing moddb would remove flexibility. An empty moddb is not big :-)

cheers

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