From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:08:48 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Stripping kernel modules for ARC In-Reply-To: <20160915094938.05417946@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:49:38 +0200") References: <1473852437.3766.15.camel@synopsys.com> <20160915084753.4717445f@free-electrons.com> <87a8f9fx5p.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20160915094938.05417946@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <8760pxfuun.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > 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. 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. -- Venlig hilsen, Peter Korsgaard