Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Disable INSTALL_MOD_STRIP when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG set

[Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>]

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On 15/01/13 07:36, Chris Samuel wrote:

> So we set mod_strip_cmd to be true to prevent it stripping kernel
> modules, just as happens if INSTALL_MOD_STRIP is not passed.

Ignore this patch, sorry for the noise.

I'd tested by comparing the modules produced by the build system in this
patch with the ones produced by make-kpkg and missed the fact that
*after* doing the module install make-kpkg then runs objcopy on the
modules to copy out the debug sections for a debug package and then uses
objcopy to remove the same debug sections (along with the signature)
from the ones in the main package. :-(

I'd also misread the order that the strip and signing happens, so that
the kernel signs after stripping, so there is nothing to fix.

Interestingly stripping them only saves 1MB out of 120MB for me, so it
hardly seems worth doing.

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