Re: BSD CCP Compression module?
Andrew E. Mileski (aem@nic.ott.hookup.net)
Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:01:10 -0400 (EDT)
> This module is a good thing, but WHY must it be compiled and loaded
> outside of the kernel? This is a pain, as it then has to have a line in
> one of the rc.* scripts to load it up. Also, our main Internet server
> admin guy (who, BTW, is pretty experienced in Linux) just learned about
> this. If someone could explain this to me a little, maybe I'll see.
> Linus? Any ideas? Anyone else want to chime in? I'd be happy to have this
> one explained. Also, FWIW, maybe there should be a text file in the
> Documentation subdirectory of the source tree to explain this somewhat.
Try using kerneld to AUTOMATICALLY add modules. Works for me, and I
have everything possible as a module.
The compression module _LIKELY_ requires a lot of memory (this
is a wild guess). By using a module, this memory is only used when
the module is being used.
Note: you need to set up an 'alias tty-ldisc-3 bsd_comp' in
your /etc/conf.modules file.
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