Hmm. Your kernel is nearly 3M in size. Admittedly that's uncompressed, but that still sounds large to me. Which suggests that you already have a lot of stuff built in that could otherwisebe modularised.

I'm trying to work out why you would want ext3 as a module anyway. It's not like you'd ever unload it.
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