Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:28:24 +0100 | From | Harald Dunkel <> | Subject | Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge? |
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Måns Rullgård wrote: > > My 2.6.3 vfat.ko is 15365 bytes. Maybe you enabled kernel debugging > symbols. >
% ll /lib/modules/2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14232 Feb 19 07:43 vfat.ko
Assuming that you are on i686:
A size difference of 1 KByte (about 7%) is remarkable. Which gcc did you use for building 2.6.3?
I am on Debian (Sid). Gcc is 3.3.3, which was released a few days ago.
Regards
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