[aur-general] Gzipped kernel modules

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 03/11/2011 01:38 AM, jesse jaara wrote:
>
>> 11.3.2011 0.52 "Thomas S Hatch"<thatch45 at gmail.com>  kirjoitti:
>>
>>>
>>> I am the maintainer of libguestfs in the AUR, and to run it uses insmod
>>> to
>>> load kernel modules into a specialized vm.
>>>
>>> The problem I am running into is that insmod cannot load the new gz
>>> kernel
>>> modules, so I unzipped them all to see if that would solve the problem,
>>>
>> but
>>
>>> now insmod does not seem to load them in the correct order.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a way to get insmod to load gzipped kernel modules?
>>> Or
>>> is there a way to install the latest kernel without gzipped modules?
>>>
>>> -Thomas S Hatch
>>>
>> You can rebuild the kernel from abs and edit the PKGBUILD to not gzip the
>> modules
>>
>
>
> that's not related to the kernel at all. module-init-tools has to be
> compiled with gzip support and it would be able to load both modules
>
> --
> Ionuț
>

Wait, you are saying that insmod will load gzipped mods if compiled
differently?