From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:49:38 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Stripping kernel modules for ARC In-Reply-To: <87a8f9fx5p.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1473852437.3766.15.camel@synopsys.com> <20160915084753.4717445f@free-electrons.com> <87a8f9fx5p.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20160915094938.05417946@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:18:58 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > Sounds good. When was this introduced and what about external kernel modules? Introduced in commit ac031f26e89cc04fc7504f31ae137857eb83a051, appeared first in 2.6.18. 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 :-/ Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com