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From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:53:37 +0000
Subject: [Buildroot] Stripping kernel modules for ARC
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Hi all,

On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 10:08 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
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> > > > > > "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:
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> ?> Hello,
> ?> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:18:58 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
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> ?>> Sounds good. When was this introduced and what about external kernel modules?
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> ?> Introduced in commit ac031f26e89cc04fc7504f31ae137857eb83a051, appeared
> ?> first in 2.6.18.
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> Ok, good!
> 
> ?> External kernel modules: the one using kbuild will do fine, as long as
> ?> we use the modules_install target of the kbuild build system and not
> ?> manually install/copy the .ko files.
> 
> ?> External kernel modules not using kbuild would obviously no longer be
> ?> stripped. Not sure how many of these we have today, and how to handle
> ?> them. They could be problematic :-/
> 
> I guess we'll just have to handle those explictly whenever we find them.

Let me cook up a patch which uses?INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 then.

-Alexey