> The 'tarball' variant has other problems, such as "how does the kernel > extract a module from the tarball to facilitate auto-load?" Last time > I looked, there was no kernel version of tar or pax. :) IMHO, Loss of > the autoload capability would severely reduce the useability of modules.
there is "ustarfs" support in the kernel/libsa, that wouldn't really be a big issue if this isn't directly usable, it would be simple to fix or port some extractor code. .mrg.
