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SubjectRe: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?
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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