From 2ea038917bbdd51a7ae4a898c6a04641324dd033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:38:20 +0100 Subject: Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko" This reverts commit ad7a953c522ceb496611d127e51e278bfe0ff483. And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL") 9bb482476c6c9d1ae033306440c51ceac93ea80c These stripping patches has caused a set of issues: 1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2 Reported by: Wenji 2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others 3) The installed modules increased a lot in size Reported by: Ted, Davej + others Reported-by: Wenji Huang Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reported-by: Dave Jones Reported-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- init/Kconfig | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index a724a149bf3f..0e9924743a17 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -626,13 +626,6 @@ config KALLSYMS_ALL Say N. -config KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED - bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms" - depends on KALLSYMS_ALL - default y - help - Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols. - config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" depends on KALLSYMS -- cgit v1.2.2