From: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stripping symbols from modules
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:36:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A6F20BE.E493EC1@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FEEBE78C8360D411ACFD00D0B747797188095D@xsj02.sjs.agilent.com> <94m11u$3re$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Is there any way to export only
> > selected symbols as required by insmod ? As of now I am not worried
> > about ksymoops.
> >
>
> I think "strip --strip-unneeded" is what you want.
>
I think you will find "--strip-unneeded" will toss out init_module
and cleanup_module (and perhaps others). Using "strip -g -x ..."
would leave the important bits in place IIRC (at least on 2.2.x).
Paul.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-24 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-23 23:15 stripping symbols from modules hiren_mehta
2001-01-24 3:06 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-24 7:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-24 18:36 ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
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2001-01-23 22:34 MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
2001-01-23 23:06 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-27 17:54 ` Willy Tarreau
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