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=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, 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 A32EDC61CE4 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639D42086D for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="BA+XFgqG" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727838AbfASK2J (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2019 05:28:09 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:57614 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726541AbfASK2J (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2019 05:28:09 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=QqYhpraz2T5DKlyFklHd2H2zgLOLDp2vx7iyLks+BLA=; b=BA+XFgqGvneirc1cwRxhITEl8 AA3+AG2XztsCqQC3cvJTybc7lKHSNq8PoGV5+skZtU9xS7pFDVFjcW8UwMkaczs9vNcvfczTfE6Q+ kEssNrZgvD8zZGgx6RrN09xdKjnKN2+BQFGauFRGOIVhg4smbEGsLxrLXyWDwNb/60142kCzD+Aiw ++Wol1YEGTYEF8h881JcCdG9tTM5ISIShOPVn++aY7il1Mqi0KttUN0MTgv0MK5DWnRT/1Ioy6lLq ne8yFZheosE2GnL9QXOwJL5s9mK4sDPi3HKYvTa18D6q1XmMmi2HrKBeBQTfFcEqpQcCATQzZJxFE Q++7bwpsg==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1gknr6-0005zW-VI; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:28:00 +0000 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 02:28:00 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Joel Fernandes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , ast@kernel.org, atishp04@gmail.com, Borislav Petkov , dancol@google.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, "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: <20190119102800.GB17723@infradead.org> 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/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This seems like a pretty horrible idea and waste of kernel memory. Just add support to kbuild to store a compressed archive in initramfs and unpack it in the right place.