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re: Fixed modular kernel path and different kernels



> The 'tarball' variant has other problems, such as "how does the kernel
> extract a module from the tarball to facilitate auto-load?"  Last time
> I looked, there was no kernel version of tar or pax.  :)  IMHO, Loss of
> the autoload capability would severely reduce the useability of modules.

there is "ustarfs" support in the kernel/libsa, that wouldn't
really be a big issue if this isn't directly usable, it would
be simple to fix or port some extractor code.


.mrg.


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