Compression formats
Compression formats
Posted Mar 21, 2019 23:34 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)In reply to: Compression formats by corbet
Parent article: Building header files into the kernel
Posted Mar 22, 2019 1:55 UTC (Fri)
by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
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You'd probably want to keep the comments. After all, there's a wealth of information in what the *human* programmer wanted when writing the header file that's not usually obvious in the code itself. I mean, if we're going to shove all this extra data into a kernel module anyway... As for the various compression formats, why not give users a choice? I propose gzip, bz2, lzma, xz, and lzma at a minimum. After all, open source is all about choice, right? </sarcastic humor> Seriously, though, if this whole feature is limited to a loadable module, and optional at build time, then perhaps this isn't a bad idea. If this [grows] into a mandatory role over time, then perhaps its use (or over-use) is a sign that this is a badly needed feature that should remain.
Allow me to add to the bike-shedding...
I guess you could also remove all whitespace and comments…