From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild: install to a single directory
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:24:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090119012428.GB4491@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0901172055100.15992@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:17:16PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> This proposed change will collect all kernel modules in the
> single directory, e.g. /lib/modules/2.6.29-rc2/kernel/, without
> any further directory structure. About 475 inodes (with
> almost-allmodconfig) less are used, which should result
> in faster directory traversal (less seeks).
Hi Jan.
Can you elaborate a little more why this is needed / a good thing.
Also:
-> Is mod-utils compatible with this change
-> Is userland in general compatible with this change
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-19 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 21:17 Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-18 21:24 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-01-19 1:24 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-01-19 11:17 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-19 12:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
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