John Doe wrote:
> Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> The new image is considerably bigger than the old one (12 MB vs. 5.7 MB)
>>> which puzzles me, as the driver file itself is 2.8 MB (compared to the
>>> old e1000e.ko with ca 170 KB) [...]
>
> Just wondering... can you safely strip modules like you would strip executables?
Don't know. Admittedly I don't even know what stripping is...[reading in
Wikipedia]...now having some half-knowledge...
`strip e1000e.ko` results in a 148K file (compared to the 2.8MB
original). I'll try to put this one into the initrd.ing tomorrow.
Thanks
frank