On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 11:48, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 26.06.2004 schrieb Sanjeev Das um 20:31: > > [ reordered due to top-posting ] > > > >> This causes my modules directory to be a whopping 300MB in size. using > > >> redhat's supplied config file still gives me that. What's happening? > > > > > > Dave Jones explained that here recently: your custom compiled modules contain debug code > > > while the modules of the default Fedora kernel are stripped. > > > Is there a way to custom compile without the debug code? > > Yes, when configuring your kernel setup by editing the .config disable debug. Yeah.. Just found it. I was wondering what was happening since I was using redhat's .config file and stripping things out. > > Dave Jones @redhat.com: > > "The ones from the rpm have their debug info stripped and put into the aptly named 'debuginfo' rpm. > When you compile it yourself, it leaves this info in the file. > > If you don't care about it you can unset CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and it won't > generate it. > > Dave" > > From thread: Size problem compiling kernel modules; 2004/07/06 > > You could have researched that yourself. Next time please. I missed that in my searches. Sorry. and Thanks.
