The patch titled
Add option for stripping modules while installing them
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is
add-option-for-stripping-modules-while-installing-them.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: Add option for stripping modules while installing them
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Add option for stripping modules while installing them
This function adds support for stripping modules while they are being
installed. CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL (which will probably become more popular as
developers use kdump) causes the size of the installed modules to grow by a
factor of 9 or so.
Some kernel package systems solve this problem by stripping the debug
information from /lib/modules after running "make modules_install", but
that may not work for people who are installing directly into /lib/modules
--- root partitions that were sized to handle 16 megs worth of modules may
not be quite so happy with 145 megs of modules, so the "make
modules_install" never succeeds.
This patch allows such users to request modules_install to strip the
modules as they are installed.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 8 ++++++++
Makefile | 17 +++++++++++++++++
scripts/Makefile.modinst | 2 +-
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt~add-option-for-stripping-modules-while-installing-them Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt~add-option-for-stripping-modules-while-installing-them
+++ a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -1123,6 +1123,14 @@ The top Makefile exports the following v
$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE). The user may
override this value on the command line if desired.
+ INSTALL_MOD_STRIP
+
+ If this variable is specified, will cause modules to be stripped
+ after they are installed. If INSTALL_MOD_STRIP is '1', then the
+ default option --strip-debug will be used. Otherwise,
+ INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will used as the option(s) to the strip command.
+
+
=== 8 Makefile language
The kernel Makefiles are designed to run with GNU Make. The Makefiles
diff -puN Makefile~add-option-for-stripping-modules-while-installing-them Makefile
--- a/Makefile~add-option-for-stripping-modules-while-installing-them
+++ a/Makefile
@@ -523,6 +523,23 @@ export INSTALL_PATH ?= /boot
MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
export MODLIB
+#
+# INSTALL_MOD_STRIP, if defined, will cause modules to be
+# stripped after they are installed. If INSTALL_MOD_STRIP is '1', then
+# the default option --strip-debug will be used. Otherwise,
+# INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will used as the options to the strip command.
+
+ifdef INSTALL_MOD_STRIP
+ifeq ($(INSTALL_MOD_STRIP),1)
+mod_strip_cmd = strip --strip-debug
+else
+mod_strip_cmd = strip $(INSTALL_MOD_STRIP)
+endif # INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1
+else
+mod_strip_cmd = true
+endif # INSTALL_MOD_STRIP
+export mod_strip_cmd
+
ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
core-y += kernel/ mm/ fs/ ipc/ security/ crypto/ block/
diff -puN scripts/Makefile.modinst~add-option-for-stripping-modules-while-installing-them scripts/Makefile.modinst
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modinst~add-option-for-stripping-modules-while-installing-them
+++ a/scripts/Makefile.modinst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ __modinst: $(modules)
@:
quiet_cmd_modules_install = INSTALL $@
- cmd_modules_install = mkdir -p $(2); cp $@ $(2)
+ cmd_modules_install = mkdir -p $(2); cp $@ $(2) ; $(mod_strip_cmd) $(2)/$(notdir $@)
# Modules built outside the kernel source tree go into extra by default
INSTALL_MOD_DIR ?= extra
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are
git-kbuild.patch
cleanup-dead-code-from-ext2-mount-code.patch
fix-memory-leak-when-the-ext3s-journal-file-is-corrupted.patch
remove-inconsistent-space-before-exclamation-point-in-ext3s-mount-code.patch
remove-tty_dont_flip.patch
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