From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:04:40 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] linux: strip installed modules In-Reply-To: <1290038143-17595-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:55:43 -0500") References: <87oc9nad27.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1290038143-17595-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <87r5ea4emv.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Frysinger writes: Mike> The installed kernel modules should have useless build cruft Mike> stripped out of them. On my system, a default build went from a Mike> very unreasonable 30MB to a normal 3MB (on disk) and from 14MB to Mike> 3MB when compressed due to the info stored in the kernel modules Mike> alone. Committed with a small change to not use binutils strip specific options (we support sstrip as well). -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard