On 10/17/05, Sven Schuster <schuster.sven@xxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] > My system is a Fedora Core 4 installation, and additionally to > installing the FC4 kernel updates I always compile the latest -mm > kernel on my system. > One thing I noticed is that there is a _big_ difference in the size > of the kernel modules between FC4- and self compiled kernels, for > example here is an output of "ls -l" on the e1000 module file: > > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 122792 Jul 15 08:15 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853861 Oct 17 10:59 2.6.14-rc4-mm1_10/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko > > As can easily be seen, the file of the self compiled kernel is 7 times > the size of the file of the FC4 kernel. Both files are not stripped [snip] > > Does anybody have an idea what might cause this?? > Are you using the same .config for both kernels (as in take the stock Fedora kernels .config and use that with make oldconfig in your custom build one) ? I would guess it's a difference in config options that cause it. I have no idea how Fedora build their kernels, but there are several options that can make a size difference - like all the stuff beneath CONFIG_EMBEDDED , and also some of the kernel hacking options like CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO for example. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
