From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89881C61CE4 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 08:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354B02087E for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 08:26:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1547886369; bh=hKbRYsjDUoJq4lEyje5xujwnZRY7J3gM85Quk/yTszU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=QRwNiIvAxPAmiiAcuFGaOtpVkSWVIuuRSuXX0zQ7MVv6vAtX3Ukp5w8kybAKYUwOc WlhS54Wa24aEO70Hh0SsTj9PCMqkW1BdHb/D0AY52HIpS1hSAgCprFtbU/Y8p5oXz+ naysNNrE8lihFlYxSPZd6tJlsIgpEpW4YQHVCFDQ= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727702AbfASI0I (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:26:08 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:41554 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725910AbfASI0I (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:26:08 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E3DD620823; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 08:26:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1547886367; bh=hKbRYsjDUoJq4lEyje5xujwnZRY7J3gM85Quk/yTszU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=frhTY2a7OZXWFx56/tWB8bxmeCAW7JaYQk315oXLDSzLbIF0XIfp52vkHx9uUznRG mqLFCYnHfK8EzkMP44upRFEjxxamhCbr7IxhE5CMQ9CaO6yomCXlt2gFDJG6byAfk3 vinuwifWw3Q2MoRdnvWQFYOZ+aXcuO8MI7fkau0c= Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 09:26:04 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Joel Fernandes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , ast@kernel.org, atishp04@gmail.com, Borislav Petkov , dancol@google.com, "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Jonathan Corbet , karim.yaghmour@opersys.com, Kees Cook , kernel-team@android.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Manoj Rao , Masahiro Yamada , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , rdunlap@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Thomas Gleixner , "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" , yhs@fb.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Message-ID: <20190119082604.GB9004@kroah.com> References: <20190118225543.86996-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190118225543.86996-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.2 (2019-01-07) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 05:55:43PM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote: > --- a/init/Kconfig > +++ b/init/Kconfig > @@ -549,6 +549,16 @@ config IKCONFIG_PROC > This option enables access to the kernel configuration file > through /proc/config.gz. > > +config IKHEADERS_PROC > + tristate "Enable kernel header artifacts through /proc/kheaders.tgz" > + select BUILD_BIN2C > + depends on PROC_FS > + help > + This option enables access to the kernel header and other artifacts that > + are generated during the build process. These can be used to build kernel > + modules, and other in-kernel programs such as those generated by eBPF > + and systemtap tools. > + Minor nit, say what the module name here is if you pick the option as a module? thanks, greg k-h