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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2006-06-22 04:53:09 +0400
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2006-06-25 01:16:45 +0400
commitac031f26e89cc04fc7504f31ae137857eb83a051 (patch)
tree688a89949e477a0cb12b21b44ace0df03593230d /Documentation/kbuild
parent468d949401d729b28eed6ea5be25695c5731d3f1 (diff)
downloadlinux-ac031f26e89cc04fc7504f31ae137857eb83a051.tar.xz
kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them
Add option for stripping modules while installing them. This function adds support for stripping modules while they are being installed. CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL (which will probably become more popular as developers use kdump) causes the size of the installed modules to grow by a factor of 9 or so. Some kernel package systems solve this problem by stripping the debug information from /lib/modules after running "make modules_install", but that may not work for people who are installing directly into /lib/modules --- root partitions that were sized to handle 16 megs worth of modules may not be quite so happy with 145 megs of modules, so the "make modules_install" never succeeds. This patch allows such users to request modules_install to strip the modules as they are installed. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index a9c00facdf40..14ef3868a328 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -1123,6 +1123,14 @@ The top Makefile exports the following variables:
$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE). The user may
override this value on the command line if desired.
+ INSTALL_MOD_STRIP
+
+ If this variable is specified, will cause modules to be stripped
+ after they are installed. If INSTALL_MOD_STRIP is '1', then the
+ default option --strip-debug will be used. Otherwise,
+ INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will used as the option(s) to the strip command.
+
+
=== 8 Makefile language
The kernel Makefiles are designed to run with GNU Make. The Makefiles