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    kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them · ac031f26
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    
    
    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: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
    ac031f26
    kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    
    
    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: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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