kernel-ark/Documentation/kbuild
Theodore Ts'o ac031f26e8 kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them
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@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-24 23:16:45 +02:00
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kconfig-language.txt
makefiles.txt kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them 2006-06-24 23:16:45 +02:00
modules.txt