[Shr-Devel] Why not stripping the kernel modules?

Helge Hafting helge.hafting at hist.no
Tue Dec 15 14:47:19 CET 2009


Tom Hacohen wrote:
[...]
> 
> Are you sure there are no side effects? I finished doing the change, I 
> haven't sent a patch yet.

There should be only one side effect - removing debug information 
clearly makes debugging harder. But those that want to debug can usually
compile themselves.

> Does it work brilliantly for you? It should make a big change, as they 
> waste space and ram for no good reason.

70M sure is a lot of flash, but shouldn't waste any ram. The loader is
supposed to be smart enough to not load the debug symbol names from the 
files.

Helge Hafting


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