On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:38 AM, Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 15:37 -0700, Daniel Mentz wrote: >> Sorry, that was a misunderstanding. Buildroot routinely runs the strip >> command on .ko files before installing them on the target. I was only >> looking at the .ko files *after* running the strip command. No, the >> interim patch was not in my tree. > > Well are you sure buildroot really touches modules in Linux kernel build folder? > Buildroot just runs a simple "make" command in "output/build/linux-x.y". Sorry, that was phrased badly. Buildroot does not touch the modules in the Linux kernel build folder. Modules are stripped in the target directory as you described. > And only on installation step Buildroot strips binaries in "output/target" folder. > Moreover starting from that commit > https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=10c4d27aef4dca01572cfc8146cbfd194a1a85e4 > even on Linux installation step Buildroot reuses kernel's module stripping infrastructure > but again that happens only on target.
