On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote: > On 19/06/14 05:57, Dilip Basavaraju wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I have compiled the linux-2.6.32-431.el6-kernel with the following steps >> >> 1. Make mproper >> >> 2. Make menuconfig >> >> 3. Make >> >> 4. Make modules >> >> 5. Make modules_install >> The compilation is successful but there is a huge change in the size of the .ko generated compared to original .ko from the rpm. >> >> Please suggest the steps to compile the centos linux-2.6.32-431.el6-kernel and use the modules and to build the kernel.rpm >> > > It's extremely well documented in the 3 kernel articles on the Wiki: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-c4dbf9ecb355694c78175c7eaad46a2472a3849b And as to the size of the modules being big, this blog explains it all: http://blog.toracat.org/2009/03/strip-it-but-not-all-of-it/ Akemi