Putting the full unstripped modules in the kernel-debuginfo package

[Chuck Ebbert]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:05 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> Right now we package the debuginfo so it contains only the
>> DWARF debug information, but some utilities can't work with
>> that. If we put the full modules with debug info in the
>> package then everything should work, at the cost of making
>> the package about 14MB larger. Is there any reason not to
>> do this? (i686 debuginfo is about 175MB now.)
> 
> Which utilities don't work with just DWARF by the way?
> 

objdump for one - I can't get a mixed source/disassembly listing
for modules. This makes debugging oopses inside of modules a lot
harder than it needs to be.