From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stripping symbols from modules
Date: 23 Jan 2001 23:42:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94m11u$3re$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FEEBE78C8360D411ACFD00D0B747797188095D@xsj02.sjs.agilent.com>
Followup to: <FEEBE78C8360D411ACFD00D0B747797188095D@xsj02.sjs.agilent.com>
By author: hiren_mehta@agilent.com
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> That is what I was guessing. But insmod does not need all symbols
> present in the .o.
>
> I need to do this because when I release the driver to the customer,
> I don't want them to be aware of some of the symbols. I understand
> that this is against the open source policy. But that's how it is
> and it is beyond my control. 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.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-24 7:45 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 [this message]
2001-01-24 18:36 ` Paul Gortmaker
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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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