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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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To: Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov>
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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
> 
> 2.4.23-xfs/kernel/fs/vfat:
> total 20
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        17614 Dec  3 18:04 vfat.o
> 
> 2.6.0/kernel/fs/vfat:
> total 288
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       288738 Feb 11 16:47 vfat.ko
> 
> 2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat:
> total 288
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       289086 Feb 24 10:09 vfat.ko
> 
> Ian
> 

You probably have debugging config options enabled (ie CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO).

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				Brian Gerst