[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#505484: linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02: modules not stripped

[Luca Capello]

Package: linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02
Version: 20080903.git2ea34171-2
Severity: important
User: pkg-fso-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: package-creation

Hi there!

This discussion started at [1].

On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:25:39 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 07.11.2008, 23:03 -0500 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
>> > I think the rationale is that all features of the kernel should be
>> > available. We could group and separate them into packages if it
>> > becomes an issue.

This would be a problem when we will go for a stock Debian kernel.

>> Actually, looking at it again, it seems that the set of modules
>> provided by the Om kernels is pretty much the same,

>> but each *.ko file is about 10 times smaller.  Not sure what's going
>> on here.  Could be something to do with something like
>> versioned-identifiers, or some other global compilation option for
>> the kernel.
>
> Gismo, I guess you might know something about that? Maybe some "-g"
> parameter parameter or a call to "strip" that’s missing?

I have not checked yet, but you are probably right: IIRC we do not strip
anything and instead we just call make to build the kernel.  I guess
that the switch to kernel-package will solve this issue as well.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2008-November/000391.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: armel (armv4tl)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 depends on:
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux
kernel mo

linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 recommends no packages.

linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 suggests no packages.

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