[BusyBox] [patch] Add bunzip2 support to insmod

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Aug 16 15:41:17 UTC 2005


This lets you do:

bzip2 -9 < module.ko > module.ko.bz2
mv module.ko.bz2 module.ko

insmod module.ko # or modprobe module.ko

This can be useful if you're really tight on space in your filesystem,
and/or have crazy-large .ko files.

The only possible issue with the patch is that it doesn't distinguish
between non-bzip2'd files and failed bzip2'd decompression; both fall
back to assuming the file isn't bzip2-compressed. However, this should
work fine in practice.

Patch is against 1.00 release.
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