Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?

From: Jan De Luyck
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 11:00:17 EST


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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:30, Ian Soboroff wrote:
> Can anyone help me understand why 2.6-series kernel modules are so
> huge?
>
> $ cd /lib/modules
> $ ls -l */kernel/fs/vfat
> 2.4.20-18.8bigmem/kernel/fs/vfat:
> total 20
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17678 May 29 2003 vfat.o
>
> 2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat:
> total 288
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289086 Feb 24 10:09 vfat.ko

You probably have some sort of debugging on.

devilkin@precious:/lib/modules/2.6.2/kernel/fs/vfat$ ls -l
total 20
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18750 2004-02-09 12:56 vfat.ko

Jan
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