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From: pa@see.signature.invalid (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Why the kernel modules I compiled so big ?
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 01:34:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Fanchy <li3939108@gmail.com> wrote:
> my platform is debian-6.0.3-amd64
> I downloaded the 2.6.32 kernel source with "apt-get " and used the
> same ".config" file as the "config-2.6.32-5-amd64"file
> [ ... ]
> It seems every single module I compiled is more than  10 times as the
> counterpart in "/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/" directory

Try turning off CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO.
(make menuconfig, "Kernel hacking",
"Compile the kernel with debug info" .)

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