From: Jan De Luyck <lkml@kcore.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:50:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402241650.49744.lkml@kcore.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cfptc4lckg.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov>
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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:30, 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
>
> 2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat:
> total 288
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289086 Feb 24 10:09 vfat.ko
You probably have some sort of debugging on.
devilkin@precious:/lib/modules/2.6.2/kernel/fs/vfat$ ls -l
total 20
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18750 2004-02-09 12:56 vfat.ko
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-24 15:30 Why are 2.6 modules so huge? Ian Soboroff
2004-02-24 15:40 ` Norberto Bensa
2004-02-24 15:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-25 7:28 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-25 8:56 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-24 15:50 ` Brian Gerst
2004-02-24 16:03 ` Ian Soboroff
2004-02-24 15:50 ` Jan De Luyck [this message]
2004-02-24 16:05 ` James Morris
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