[pacman-dev] [PATCH v3] makepkg: implement support for stripping kernel modules

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:52:11AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 12.02.2014 00:13, schrieb Allan McRae:
> > I have seen a few people report that stripping that file breaks module
> > builds.   This and your statement that it is not related to module
> > builds seem inconsistent.
> 
> So, I just deleted the file and built a module successfully. I don't see
> where you get your information, but that seems pretty solid.

vmlinux present, unstripped -- modpost succeeds
vmlinux present, stripped -- modpost fails
vmlinux not present -- modpost succeeds

Above results apply to kdbus and nvidia.

No idea....