On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:56:00 +0100 Jacques wrote:

> Le Mardi 14 Janvier 2003 17:37, Brad Fritz a écrit :
> > Looks like many (or all?) of the Bering 2.4.20 modules [..]
> > are not stripped.  Was that intentional?
[..]

> Hi Brad
> Your suggestion would indeed save space but I would not recomment it.
> It will work for some modules, won't for some others.
> It would have to tested case by case because doing so globally you might be 
> stripping symbols needed for relocation and/or modules parameters. That is 
> what I rembered from some experiments I did along this line some months ago.
> So it's probably safer to leave that option to  the end user (some lines 
> could be added along these lines in the modules section of the install guide)
> 
> with a strip.lrp package.
> strip  with --strip-unneeded flag would be safer but would save less space.

I did not realize that some of the symbols in kernel modules
where necessary for everything to work properly.  My testing
was pretty limited (just the 3c509 module).  Thank you for the
explanation.

--Brad




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