Ubuntu
kmod package

kmod should permit use of compressed modules

Bug #1337262 reported by Alex Bligh
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
kmod (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
kmod (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Andy Whitcroft
Ubuntu ubuntu-16.03

Bug Description

kmod should permit use of compressed modules. This enables images that boot from RAM to be much smaller. In essence this requires only changing a build option. Uncompressed modules are still supported.

A patch is here:
https://github.com/abligh/kmod/commit/31795c8078ba9ccb6f064d11d0c9e640f8e0fab1

Revision history for this message
Alex Bligh (ubuntu-alex-org) wrote :

gah this got filed under apache2 even though I said affects kmod. - apologies all

affects: apache2 (Ubuntu) → kmod (Ubuntu)
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw)
milestone: none → ubuntu-14.12
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-14.12 → ubuntu-15.01
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.01 → ubuntu-15.02
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.02 → ubuntu-15.03
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.03 → ubuntu-15.07
Revision history for this message
Alex Bligh (ubuntu-alex-org) wrote :

I know this isn't exactly urgent, but it is the world's simplest patch, and is really quite useful if you are booting in an environment where modules are on the boot disk.

Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.07 → ubuntu-15.08
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.08 → ubuntu-15.09
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.09 → ubuntu-15.10
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.10 → ubuntu-15.11
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.11 → ubuntu-15.12
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-15.12 → ubuntu-16.01
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-16.01 → ubuntu-16.02
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in kmod (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-16.02 → ubuntu-16.03
Revision history for this message
Alex Bligh (ubuntu-alex-org) wrote :

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Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in kmod (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in kmod (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Paul Richards (paulr227) wrote :

Is there any plan to backport this fix to Xenial?

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