On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:08:34AM +0100, Daniel Exner <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> May I ask what the benefit of this change is?

Various drivers are provided by the kernel, but you only use a small
fragment of it:

$ find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -name "*.ko"|wc -l
3047

$ /sbin/lsmod|wc -l
106

To me, it makes some sense to compress those never-used modules.

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