Comment 10 for bug 43706

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> what could we do to work around it?
>- Delete the copied-up versions of the .ko files after hardware detection is complete?

I think there is the very simple solution for Gutsy - nvidia*.ko (nvidia_legacy.ko, nvidia_new.ko, nvidia.ko) and fcdsl*.ko take biggest part of space (more, than 25 MB, ATI/fglrx takes only about 1,5 MB), so, it's very simple to detect if computer has nvidia/ATI hardware and do not build 3 nvidia modules if there are no nvidia hardware on the system.
Of course, the best solution would be to build only these .ko files, which can be useful on running system, but if this solution is too complicated (requires too much work), then we can just not to build biggest modules)

Btw, why this bug isn't assigned to linux-restricted-modules-common ?