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SubjectWhy are 2.6 modules so huge?
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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

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