Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 22 2009, sobtwmxt wrote: > Manoj Srivastava ieee.org> writes: > >> >> As mentioned in another post in this thread, the installed >> modules are stripped of debugging information. make-kpkg can now >> create a linux-debug-** package that has detached debug information, to >

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread sobtwmxt
Manoj Srivastava ieee.org> writes: > > As mentioned in another post in this thread, the installed > modules are stripped of debugging information. make-kpkg can now > create a linux-debug-** package that has detached debug information, to > be used for debugging, as needed. > >

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Sep 21 2009, sobtwmxt wrote: > I have built a custom kernel, using make-kpgk, from debian source. > Using ls -l, there is difference in the size of kernel modules, .ko > files, at build place and after installation of the package. I > only looked at 2 unrelated modules, but I think th

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Does the install software strip extra symbols from the driver? $ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.2M 2009-09-13 03:59 /lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko $ strip nvidia.ko $ ls -l nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 war users 7.9M 2009-0

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
sobtwmxt wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev yahoo.com> writes: > >> >> are you using the same filesystem on both (i.e. ext3)? >> > > > It is ext3 on both. then may be the disks are different type? do on both machines as root fdisk -l /dev/ i.e. fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 8002636185

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread sobtwmxt
Emanoil Kotsev yahoo.com> writes: > > are you using the same filesystem on both (i.e. ext3)? > It is ext3 on both. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
sobtwmxt wrote: > I have built a custom kernel, using make-kpgk, from debian source. > Using ls -l, there is difference in the size of kernel modules, .ko > files, at build place and after installation of the package. I > only looked at 2 unrelated modules, but I think there will be a > differe

Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-21 Thread sobtwmxt
I have built a custom kernel, using make-kpgk, from debian source. Using ls -l, there is difference in the size of kernel modules, .ko files, at build place and after installation of the package. I only looked at 2 unrelated modules, but I think there will be a difference in the size of other