Re: HOWTO build a kernel module

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Subject: Re: HOWTO build a kernel module
From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:36:23 +0000
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BZ Benny wrote:

Hi Paul,
tkank you, you are very helpful.

I did like you describe here for building hci_usb.ko
in
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.766_FC3/kernel/drivers/bluetooth

But i noticed that the one used before has a size of
19.4KB and the one I build by myself has 133.9KB size.
why is it so biger than the original one?

The one supplied in the kernel RPM has the debugging symbols stripped out. You can do this using:

$ strip -g hci_usb.ko

Paul.