[Buildroot] Stripping kernel modules for ARC

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Thu Sep 15 10:53:37 UTC 2016


Hi all,

On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 10:08 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
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> > > > > > "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
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>  > Hello,
>  > On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:18:58 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
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>  >> Sounds good. When was this introduced and what about external kernel modules?
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>  > Introduced in commit ac031f26e89cc04fc7504f31ae137857eb83a051, appeared
>  > first in 2.6.18.
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> Ok, good!
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>  > External kernel modules: the one using kbuild will do fine, as long as
>  > we use the modules_install target of the kbuild build system and not
>  > manually install/copy the .ko files.
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>  > External kernel modules not using kbuild would obviously no longer be
>  > stripped. Not sure how many of these we have today, and how to handle
>  > them. They could be problematic :-/
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> I guess we'll just have to handle those explictly whenever we find them.

Let me cook up a patch which uses INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 then.

-Alexey


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