1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index d57d1f50b7..af58887f28 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -293,15 +293,16 @@ python split_kernel_packages () {
 # with a fixed length or there is a limit in transferring the kernel to memory
 do_sizecheck() {
         if [ ! -z "${KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE}" ]; then
-                size=`ls -l ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} | awk '{ print $5}'`
+                cd ${B}
+                size=`ls -lL ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} | awk '{ print $5}'`
                 if [ $size -ge ${KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE} ]; then
-                        rm ${KERNEL_OUTPUT}
                         die "This kernel (size=$size > ${KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE}) is too big for your device. Please reduce the size of the kernel by making more of it modular."
                 fi
         fi
 }
+do_sizecheck[dirs] = "${B}"
 
-addtask sizecheck before do_install after do_compile
+addtask sizecheck before do_install after do_kernel_link_vmlinux
 
 KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME ?= "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${PE}-${PV}-${PR}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}"
 # Don't include the DATETIME variable in the sstate package signatures