On 01/27/2015 04:03 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> 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.

I was wondering if that was the case.
>
> So we may want to update the samples to specify MODULE_SUFFIX=ko,ko.xz?

That's probably the way to go (perhaps in addition to the patch, or some 
other cleaned up default) - somehow didn't think to specify multiple 
values in the config file.  Is comma separated the proper syntax?  It's 
space separated in the code.

>
> -Tom

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