Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?

From: James Morris
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 11:16:24 EST


On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, 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

You should use size(1) for this purpose, instead of ls.


- James
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