Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934509AbXFFQAT (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:00:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753887AbXFFQAH (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:00:07 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:32670 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754893AbXFFQAF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:00:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=p93F/KxJTRuEeYGSoBkDljVwazR7nuZEcc/gF4G1OYLfRW9sxZivMMPPP9UVE9i5+bDSRwftcDu/HTCypIk8w/86u8iqg3G7ZwkyciPyxVmoFCLmMj5T4260DOJMZSgQYBVEmrNVPcV8yy1HlAafUseX0eU6OzHmj/2E3crr+aE= Message-ID: <4666D9FC.8030002@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:29:56 +0530 From: jimmy bahuleyan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Pleger CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Size of kernel modules References: <20070606170534.67b5dea9.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> In-Reply-To: <20070606170534.67b5dea9.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 OpenPGP: url=subkeys.pgp.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 979 Lines: 24 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 -- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/