From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 Epiphany/1.0.7 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:
we are not going to ship a multi megabyte file just because some external module has a broken makefile :)
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.