Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 01:50:18PM -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
 > Add target in Makefile to compress the module after it's installed.
 > Module-init-tools and libkmod can handle gzipped modules.
 > 
 > This is not much useful for distributions because the package will gzip
 > the modules and call depmod in a install rule. 

It might actually be a worthwhile thing for distributions.

For a Fedora kernel, gzipping modules saves around 80MB of diskspace per
installed kernel.  That the RPM is compressed is irrelevant, the on-disk
footprint is more interesting, given that the bulk of the modules installed
will never even be loaded.

	Dave

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