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SubjectRe: stripping symbols from modules
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Followup to:  <FEEBE78C8360D411ACFD00D0B747797188095D@xsj02.sjs.agilent.com>
By author: hiren_mehta@agilent.com
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> That is what I was guessing. But insmod does not need all symbols
> present in the .o.
>
> I need to do this because when I release the driver to the customer,
> I don't want them to be aware of some of the symbols. I understand
> that this is against the open source policy. But that's how it is
> and it is beyond my control. Is there any way to export only
> selected symbols as required by insmod ? As of now I am not worried
> about ksymoops.
>

I think "strip --strip-unneeded" is what you want.

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