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Subject: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?
From: Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:30:39 -0500
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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