There was a lot of code added to the rtl8169 driver to support the latest
chipsets, so that is why the driver is so much bigger. I cannot make it
any smaller, as that would require removing code that supports newer
chipsets.



On 2013-09-30 4:07 PM, "Robert DeFreitas" <community-noreply@qnx.com>
wrote:

>I noticed that the Net.rtl8169 driver size jumped from 45910 bytes
>(11-9-2010) to 188430 bytes (5-5-2011).  The latest version (from
>5-5-2011) has the best network stability when tested on HDD booting nodes
>but since the size has jumped over 140kB it can no longer be used in my
>PXE remote boot kernel as the kernel size goes over the ~500kB limit.  I
>figured the latest version wasn't "stripped" but that isn't the case.
>Did the code base and/or compiler change?  Can a smaller latest version
>be built?
>
>
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