Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:50:26 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge? |
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Ian Soboroff wrote: > Can anyone help me understand why 2.6-series kernel modules are so > huge? > > $ cd /lib/modules > $ ls -l */kernel/fs/vfat > 2.4.20-18.8bigmem/kernel/fs/vfat: > total 20 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17678 May 29 2003 vfat.o > > 2.4.23-xfs/kernel/fs/vfat: > total 20 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17614 Dec 3 18:04 vfat.o > > 2.6.0/kernel/fs/vfat: > total 288 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 288738 Feb 11 16:47 vfat.ko > > 2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat: > total 288 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289086 Feb 24 10:09 vfat.ko > > Ian >
You probably have debugging config options enabled (ie CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO).
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