Size problem compiling kernel modules
Dave Abbott
d.abbott at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Mon Jun 7 09:22:42 UTC 2004
Hi,
I am recompiling the 2.6.5-1.358 kernel from
the patched source, using gcc 3.3 on Fedora Core2
I have made no more than two modifications to the
.config (to enable NFS_ROOT and DEVFS).
The resulting module object files are enormous.
For example, the orginal £com driver as installed:
drwxr--r-- 1 root root 40100 May 8 14:46 kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko
And the same file as compiled:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271889 Jun 4 14:16 drivers/net/3c59x.ko
All the .ko are like this, increasing the size of /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358
from c. 58MB to 337MB
The files are not stripped, in either case.
Am I doing something wrong here? Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers,
Dave
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