linux-kernel - Re: Size of kernel modules

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Date:	Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:29:56 +0530
From:	jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@...uni-dortmund.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Size of kernel modules

Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
[snip]
> After the new kernel package had been created, I installed it. After
> that, I looked into the directory /boot and was very surprised: The
> initial ramdisk of the new kernel was much larger than the initrd of the
> old kernel. To find out the cause for this, I investigated how
> directories /lib/modules/$old and /lib/modules/$new differ. I found out
> that the filenames are the same, but the size of the files differs very
> much. I found a module file in the new directory that was almost five
> times as large as the file with the same name in the old directory.
> 

sounds more like you have debug options enabled?

-jb
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