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From: Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:30:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cfptc4lckg.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> (raw)


Can anyone help me understand why 2.6-series kernel modules are so
huge?

$ cd /lib/modules
$ ls -l */kernel/fs/vfat
2.4.20-18.8bigmem/kernel/fs/vfat:
total 20
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        17678 May 29  2003 vfat.o

2.4.23-xfs/kernel/fs/vfat:
total 20
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        17614 Dec  3 18:04 vfat.o

2.6.0/kernel/fs/vfat:
total 288
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       288738 Feb 11 16:47 vfat.ko

2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat:
total 288
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       289086 Feb 24 10:09 vfat.ko

Ian


             reply	other threads:[~2004-02-24 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24 15:30 Ian Soboroff [this message]
2004-02-24 15:40 ` Norberto Bensa
2004-02-24 15:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-25  7:28   ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-25  8:56     ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-24 15:50 ` Brian Gerst
2004-02-24 16:03   ` Ian Soboroff
2004-02-24 15:50 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-02-24 16:05 ` James Morris

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