• Kai Germaschewski's avatar
    kbuild/modules: Save space on symbol list · 7bf6b27c
    Kai Germaschewski authored
    The current code reserves 60 bytes for the symbol string of every
    exported symbol, unnecessarily wasting kernel memory since most symbols
    are much shorter. We revert to the 2.4 solution where the actual strings
    are saved out of line and only the pointers are kept.
    
    The latest module-init-tools already handle this case, people who are
    using older versions need to update to make sure depmod works
    properly.
    
    Saves 80 KB in vmlinux with my .config.
    7bf6b27c
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