Re: LEAF upgrade

09.04.2015 17:47, Erich Titl пишет:
> Am 09.04.2015 um 16:36 schrieb Andrew:
> ...
>> So let's store both packed modules + unpacked on server side, as we
>> decided earlier.
>> Packed modules will be suitable for routers with enough storage space;
>> unpacked - for tiny systems.
>> I just voting against excluding packed modules in prefer to unpacked
>> tree. It'll break usability in many cases.
> That is fine with me, let's just unpack in a first step as I did in
> branch 5.1.4-rc2 we can decide to move to squashfs later.
>
> ..
>
>>> I am building moddb of course, and for the people requiring extra
>>> modules they will be able to include them easily.
>> I mean moddb save/load logic. It'll be unneeded in most cases and empty,
>> but it'll leave possibility to load custom modules.
> We will always need this functionality, I will not touch it.
> ...
>
>>> They are, but of course they cannot be replaced automatically if they
>>> are not in either the tarball, the squashfs or in the modules directory.
>> They'll be in modules directory because they'll be in moddb.
> Yes, but they will not be recent, so they might break the system.
In worst case they will not be loaded. And they will require manual 
update - like before. And we have no possibility to automate this - by 
using tarball with modules, or by using squashfs. User in both cases 
should copy custom modules to moddb or to lib/modules.
>> As I said, I expect that squash will be mounted on boot on
>> /lib/modules/<kernel version>, then - modules probing will be ran, then
>> - modules will be copied to /etc/modules, exclusions for them will be
>> added to moddb (to not store these modules in moddb), and then - unmount
>> squash and re-probe modules from /etc/modules (for loading custom modules).
> I have not touched the boot process on purpose. If you decide to change
> it, be my guest.
I'll look on it when I'll have enough time.
>
> ...
>
>> For me, squashfs will be also better than tarball. It'll remove need of
>> module autoprobing, and it'll make system upgrade easier than with
>> tarball (esp. for system with NICs that aren't in moddb).
> I understand
>
> cheers
>
> ET
>
>
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