Shrinking kernel source

From: groutch (mapsemdnes_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: 28 Jan 2005 08:54:13 -0800

Hi,

I was shocked to see the size of the latest linux kernel source
tarball - 2.6.10 is ~200MB unzipped !
Has anyone got a little script that will let me nicely strip down the
kernel source tree to remove weird bits that aren't normally needed,
such as arch-dependent stuff, scsi stuff, docs etc., to save me disk
space. I appreciate that "normally" is a bit vague.

Cheers,

Groutch

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