Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove unneeded symbols from System.map | Date | Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:54:46 +1100 |
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:49:59 -0400, Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> wrote: >Currently, System.map contains a significant number of automatically >generated symbols. These symbols are unnecessary for debugging since >they represent individual elements of the exported symbol and PCI device >tables, yet represent about 60% of the symbols in System.map. This >patch adds a filter to remove these symbols.
Please do not apply. The size of System.map is almost irrelevant. Having the __kstrtab_ and __ksymtab_ symbols in the map helps when debugging EXPORT_SYMBOL problems. I expect that other people find the __device entries to be useful.
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