Re: 2 new commits to Bering-uClibc

20.08.2015 20:40, kp kirchdoerfer пишет:
> HI all;
>
> maybe we can make a step backwards in this discussion and can think about my
> proposal to reduce the pain:
>
> "The whole pb started here AFAIK:
> "Modules that are copied manually, should be saved. Modules that are
> loaded from squashfs aren't added to moddb.tgz to reduce it's size."
>
>
> Now we can argue that a user who has enough space for leaving modules.sqfs on
> his boot media, will have enough left for a bigger moddb.lrp than necessary
> (except those booting from iso image, who can't remove modules.sqfs).
>   
> There is a case to remove modules.sqfs even beyond space, to speed up boot
> time, so autodetection stops immediately due to "missing modules.sqfs".
>
> So if we go back and never write anything to /var/lib/lrpkg/sqfs.modules we
> can get rid of the changes to update moddb properly, addinga config option to
> leaf.cfg  etc...
> Andrew,  will there be any other issues related to such a change?"
Just slower boot (we should need to unpack 2MB of modules instead of 
some kb).

We also may change defaults for UPDATE_MODDB - set it ti true instead of 
false.

> kp
>
> Am Mittwoch, 19. August 2015, 17:28:28 schrieb Andrew:
>> 19.08.2015 17:24, Erich Titl пишет:
>>> Hi Andrew
>>>
>>> Am 19.08.2015 um 16:21 schrieb Andrew:
>>>> 19.08.2015 17:13, Erich Titl пишет:
>>>>> Hi Andrew
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 19.08.2015 um 16:11 schrieb Andrew:
>>>>>> 19.08.2015 17:09, Erich Titl пишет:
>>>>>>> Hi Andrew
>>> ...
>>>
>>>>> Yew and IMHO those modules should be replaced by the ones from either
>>>>> moddb or autoprobing.
>>>> Why them should be duplicated in moddb? What sense of this?
>>> Because they got replaced by a version which may be different.
>> 1) they are loaded mostly at boot
>> 2) there's no alternative USB & so on drivers (non-kernel), and driver
>> for other kernel version will not be loaded.
>>
>>> As I said, stuff in initmod is _temporary_ to me, just for system
>>> boot. If I could, I would even replace the kernel on the fly :-) There
>>> is no need to have a recent kernel just to fetch sofware on storage,
>>> but YMMV
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> ET
>>>
>>>
>>>
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