On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:11:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > We strip modules as much as is possible. I have never heard of stripping > the kernel itself. Stripping all symbols is highly likely to break the kernel. However, GCC generates a .ident field in object files, which seems to be unnecessary: $ strings -a /usr/src/linux-2.4.10-ac11/vmlinux | fgrep 'GCC: (GNU) 2.95.2' 310 1860 14260 Regards, Mark.