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Subject: Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?
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Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov> writes:

> Can anyone help me understand why 2.6-series kernel modules are so
> huge?
>
> 2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat:
> total 288
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       289086 Feb 24 10:09 vfat.ko

My 2.6.3 vfat.ko is 15365 bytes.  Maybe you enabled kernel debugging
symbols.

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