[Buildroot] Stripping kernel modules for ARC

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Sep 15 08:08:48 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:18:58 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> Sounds good. When was this introduced and what about external kernel modules?

 > Introduced in commit ac031f26e89cc04fc7504f31ae137857eb83a051, appeared
 > first in 2.6.18.

Ok, good!

 > External kernel modules: the one using kbuild will do fine, as long as
 > we use the modules_install target of the kbuild build system and not
 > manually install/copy the .ko files.

 > External kernel modules not using kbuild would obviously no longer be
 > stripped. Not sure how many of these we have today, and how to handle
 > them. They could be problematic :-/

I guess we'll just have to handle those explictly whenever we find them.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 



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