On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Michal Marek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29.12.2011 18:35, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >> The operation that is used most of the time is to load modules. The >> reason for having modules gzipped is the same one as for kernel image: > > The reason for having the kernel compressed is that the x86 bootloader > reads the kernel (and initrd) using bios calls. That's not the case for > modules.
It could be when it was added, but it's not anymore. Really, I wouldn't like the discussion to be whether having compressed modules is good or not, but rather if it's good to have a install rule that does all the things the right way and only once, given people *are using* compressed modules. Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
