[aur-general] Gzipped kernel modules

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:

> Am 11.03.2011 16:55, schrieb Thomas S Hatch:
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Am 11.03.2011 00:45, schrieb Thomas S Hatch:
> >>> Wait, you are saying that insmod will load gzipped mods if compiled
> >>> differently?
> >>>
> >>
> >> No. depmod, modinfo and modprobe can do it, insmod can't.
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks!
> > Unfortunately I had to fix it with a dirty, dirty hack, and I will have
> to
> > write a substantial patch to libguestfs to fix it upstream, but at least
> it
> > works.
> > Check out my horrid hack:
> >
> https://github.com/thatch45/archpkgs/blob/master/libguestfs/libguestfs.install
> >
> > While this works, I am open to suggestions :) I also think that this
> script
> > probably explains my conundrum better.
> >
>
> It looks like it is much easier to teach insmod gzip. If I see this
> right, it is actually trivial, although I did not try. module-init-tools
> didn't have a git commit for 9 months, so I don't know how fast they
> would accept a patch.
>
>
Yes, that would make it easier, then the fix to libguestfs is very menial. I
might look into it