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Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"

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This reverts commit ad7a953c52.

And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL")
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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 <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-14 21:38:20 +01:00
parent a6525042bf
commit 2ea038917b
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@@ -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