Ben Hutchings, le mer. 24 juil. 2019 13:48:00 +0100, a ecrit: > On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 13:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I'm also hitting disk contraints with almost-100M initrds. > > > > Ben Hutchings, le mar. 05 févr. 2019 01:00:31 +0100, a ecrit: > > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:34:31 +0100 =?utf-8?q?Micha=C5=82_Miros=C5=82aw?= > > > <mirq-bo...@rere.qmqm.pl> wrote: > > > > Please add an option (possibly defaulted to on) to strip kernel modules > > > > and > > > > binaries put in initrd. When using kernel with debugging enables the > > > > unstripped modules are available in /lib/modules. Unneeded copy of the > > > > symbols > > > > in initrd image take over 80% of its size. > > > [...] > > > > FTR, plain strip shouldn't be used as such, > > > > strip --strip-unneeded > > > > is needed instead, to avoid breaking loading the modules. > > strip breaks module signatures.
Sure, I didn't mean it wouldn't. I just mean that even for people who don't care about signatures, strip shouldn't be used alone, since it'll even break loading the module. Samuel
