On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 17:31 -0800, Chris Markle wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 2110478 Mar 5 16:35 e1000.ko
> What concerned me and the reason for this inquiry is that the older > e1000 version had a MUCH smaller e1000.ko file, leading me to wonder > if I had done something wrong here. > [r...@dd43 ~]# ls -l > /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000 > total 148 > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 140204 Jul 11 2006 e1000.ko Is the old driver from a distribution provided kernel (looks like maybe an Fedora 4 install)? Maybe the FC supplied kernel module has debugging info stripped? Looking on my test system, when I rebuild a distro supplied kernel source, the same driver is larger on disk than it was as installed from rpm. It looks a lot like your numbers. I'd have to look at a kernel rpm spec file from your distribution to be sure, but I'm guessing it processing on the binaries to remove debugging symbols and cut down the package size. 'file' still reports both as being unstriped, but they may be doing something more specific to make sure that needed information isn't removed. Just a guess, I'd say your driver is fine to use. - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
