From: jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Size of kernel modules
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:29:56 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4666D9FC.8030002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070606170534.67b5dea9.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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
--
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-06 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 15:05 Size of kernel modules Christoph Pleger
2007-06-06 15:51 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-06 16:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-06 17:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-06 15:59 ` jimmy bahuleyan [this message]
2007-06-06 17:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-06 18:40 ` Joseph Fannin
2007-06-08 3:44 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-06-08 12:40 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-08 18:59 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-09 7:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-09 12:08 ` Jon Masters
2007-06-09 13:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-09 16:14 ` Jon Masters
2007-06-09 18:56 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-10 13:13 ` Sergey Vlasov
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