Re: [Lzip-bug] I have some practical question about lzip patch for linux kernel (about lzip-ed kernel modules)

[Matias Fonzo]

Hello,

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:06:11 +0200
"Mioljub Ivanović" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I just compiled linux-4.14.33 kernel patched with aufs and lzip patch
> with following .config file - I used lzip compression also to
> compress kernel modules. You can see this in my .config file. I
> compiled kmod with experimental features and I got the following
> result using ArchLinux mkinitcpio command. In file
> mkinitcpio-with-lz-log.txt You can see that kmod does not work with
> lzip-ed kernel modules only gzip-ed and xz-ed. Please, would You send
> me lzip patch for kmod.

Yes.  It is true that you can patch the kernel against aufs, and also
there is an available patch from the Lzip project to add support of
lzip into the kernel, this support is currently limited for compressed
initramfs.  Lzip won't work for the kernel modules, cause the support
is needed in the kmod side.  There is one thing to do, request the
support of lzip in kmod.. which will be hard because they match the
available formats in the kernel, lzip was proposed to the linux kernel
developers some time ago, without an answer yet...

Always exist the possibility to make an unofficial patch.  :-)