From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262294AbUBXP4l (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:56:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262287AbUBXPyI (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:54:08 -0500 Received: from [212.239.224.65] ([212.239.224.65]:42112 "EHLO precious.kicks-ass.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262289AbUBXPux (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:50:53 -0500 From: Jan De Luyck To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge? Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:50:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <9cfptc4lckg.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> In-Reply-To: <9cfptc4lckg.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402241650.49744.lkml@kcore.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:30, Ian Soboroff wrote: > Can anyone help me understand why 2.6-series kernel modules are so > huge? > > $ cd /lib/modules > $ ls -l */kernel/fs/vfat > 2.4.20-18.8bigmem/kernel/fs/vfat: > total 20 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17678 May 29 2003 vfat.o > > 2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat: > total 288 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289086 Feb 24 10:09 vfat.ko You probably have some sort of debugging on. devilkin@precious:/lib/modules/2.6.2/kernel/fs/vfat$ ls -l total 20 - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18750 2004-02-09 12:56 vfat.ko Jan - -- I will make you shorter by the head. -- Elizabeth I -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAO3LYUQQOfidJUwQRAnSrAJ4oV2H2wxWBSL7OcEW4A0c13nq/ewCfbcgQ LCE637rjKmxxbDpiAvVy1NE= =UVX/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----