On 1/27/2015 12:43 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> - I've attached a patch that adds xz support to the default MODULE_SUFFIX.
> - I'm wondering it wouldn't be better to not have MODULE_SUFFX=ko in various
> sample configs so that the default value is used instead:
> 
> ./Shorewall/configfiles/shorewall.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall/Samples/Universal/shorewall.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall/Samples/three-interfaces/shorewall.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall/Samples/two-interfaces/shorewall.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall/Samples/one-interface/shorewall.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./docs/MultiISP.xml:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./docs/MyNetwork.xml:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall6/configfiles/shorewall6.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall6/Samples6/Universal/shorewall6.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall6/Samples6/three-interfaces/shorewall6.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall6/Samples6/two-interfaces/shorewall6.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> ./Shorewall6/Samples6/one-interface/shorewall6.conf:MODULE_SUFFIX=ko
> 
> - Is:
> 
> MODULE_SUFFIX=
> 
> sufficient to use the default value or does it need to be commented out?
> 

It does not need to be commented out. The biggest problem with the
default value is that it is slowwwwwwwwwww! And, until recently, all
current distributions were using .ko for the kernel module suffix.

So we may want to update the samples to specify MODULE_SUFFIX=ko,ko.xz?

-Tom
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