kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i586.rpm

[Sergey]

Yes thank you.

So it appears that the kernel rpm includes config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4, which 
mismatch the compilation options and therefore the compiled kernel binaries 
in the rpm.. Isn't it?

# grep DEBUG_INFO /boot/config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y


----- Original Message -----
From: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i586.rpm
Date: Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:05

>Am Mittwoch, den 07.12.2005, 11:43 +0500 schrieb Sergey:
>> The kernel coming with Fedora Core 4 ogirinally has "small" modules, for
>> example,
>> /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko has the size of 261304
>> bytes, or 260 K.
>> If I take kernel sources from kernel.org, and use the same config as the
>> kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 was built, the the same module nfs.ko become to
>> 2414088 bytes, or 2.5 M.
>>
>> The same way *all* other modules grow up in size up to 10 times!
>>
>> Why is that?
>
>Turn off debugging in the kernel config and everything should be normal
>again.
>
>CU
>thl