Re: Size of kernel modules

From: jimmy bahuleyan
Date: Wed Jun 06 2007 - 12:00:25 EST


Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
[snip]
> After the new kernel package had been created, I installed it. After
> that, I looked into the directory /boot and was very surprised: The
> initial ramdisk of the new kernel was much larger than the initrd of the
> old kernel. To find out the cause for this, I investigated how
> directories /lib/modules/$old and /lib/modules/$new differ. I found out
> that the filenames are the same, but the size of the files differs very
> much. I found a module file in the new directory that was almost five
> times as large as the file with the same name in the old directory.
>

sounds more like you have debug options enabled?

-jb
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