Size problem compiling kernel modules

[Aaron Gaudio]

Behold, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> hath decreed:
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 10:22, Dave Abbott wrote:
> 
> > I am recompiling the 2.6.5-1.358 kernel from
> > the patched source, using gcc 3.3 on Fedora Core2
> > 
> > I have made no more than two modifications to the
> > .config (to enable NFS_ROOT and DEVFS).
> > 
> > The resulting module object files are enormous.
> > 
> > For example, the orginal £com driver as installed:
> > 
> > drwxr--r--  1 root root 40100 May  8 14:46 kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko
> > 
> > And the same file as compiled:
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       271889 Jun  4 14:16 drivers/net/3c59x.ko
> > 
> > All the .ko are like this, increasing the size of /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358
> > from c. 58MB to 337MB
> > 
> > The files are not stripped, in either case.
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong here? Anyone got any ideas?
> 
> The ones from the rpm have their debug info stripped
> and put into the aptly named 'debuginfo' rpm.
> When you compile it yourself, it leaves this info
> in the file.
> 
> If you don't care about it you can unset CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
> and it won't generate it.
> 
> 	Dave

Is there a convenient way to manually strip the debug info from
the files after they are compiled? In other words, how does rpm
do it?

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