Theodore Ts'o ac031f26e8 kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them ...

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: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>

2006-06-24 23:16:45 +02:00

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kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them

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modules.txt

kbuild: fix garbled text in modules.txt

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