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.
Dave
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