Bug 116340

Summary:	vmlinux missing in kernel
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Behdad Esfahbod 2004-02-20 08:48:51 UTC

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Description of problem:
From the discussion on another bug I remember that vmlinux is removed
to kernel-debuginfo package.  But there are projects that use vmlinux
to build modules.  Such a project is madwifi
(http://sf.net/projects/madwifi).

Assuming there are projects that need vmlinux to build, and the fact
that kernel-debuginfo is HUGE (300+MB), there's a problem to solve here. 

An stripped vmlinux is 3MB, and the zipped version is of course below
2MB...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.2-1.87

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/
2. ls vmlinux
3.
    

Actual Results:  ls: vmlinux: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  vmlinux


Additional info:

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2004-02-20 08:50:01 UTC

we are not going to ship a multi megabyte file just because some
external module has a broken makefile :)

Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2004-02-20 08:56:15 UTC

Duh, fast man!
Thanks, that was what I really didn't know.  So you are saying
external modules should not technically need vmlinux to build.  I
would go investigate it in module itself.