From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
ast@kernel.org, atishp04@gmail.com,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
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"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
rdunlap@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
<x86@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:36:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190119103606.GA17400@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190119102800.GB17723@infradead.org>
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 02:28:00AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This seems like a pretty horrible idea and waste of kernel memory.
It's only a waste if you want it to be a waste, i.e. if you load the
kernel module.
This really isn't any different from how /proc/config.gz works.
> Just add support to kbuild to store a compressed archive in initramfs
> and unpack it in the right place.
I think the issue is that some devices do not use initramfs, or switch
away from it after init happens or something like that. Joel has all of
the looney details that he can provide.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-19 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-18 22:55 [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Joel Fernandes
2019-01-19 8:25 ` Greg KH
2019-01-19 16:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-19 17:43 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-19 23:25 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-19 23:44 ` hpa
2019-01-20 15:58 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-06 23:09 ` Pavel Machek
2019-03-06 23:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-07 0:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-03-07 0:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-07 1:22 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-07 1:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-07 20:41 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-07 20:55 ` Greg KH
2019-03-07 22:11 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-07 23:12 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 23:40 ` hpa
2019-03-08 3:16 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 1:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 16:24 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-07 0:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-03-07 0:36 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-07 0:42 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-07 1:48 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 17:37 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-01-19 8:26 ` Greg KH
2019-01-19 16:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-19 10:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-19 10:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-01-19 16:26 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-20 7:01 ` hpa
2019-01-20 16:10 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-20 21:58 ` hpa
2019-01-21 1:45 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-21 2:49 ` hpa
2019-01-21 4:38 ` Sandeep Patil
2019-01-22 13:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-23 21:29 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-01-23 22:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-24 2:32 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-24 14:18 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-24 18:57 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-01-24 20:59 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-25 19:00 ` hpa
2019-01-25 19:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-25 19:51 ` hpa
2019-01-25 20:34 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-25 20:46 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-01-25 20:28 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-06 23:09 ` Pavel Machek
2019-03-06 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-26 12:05 Norbert Lange
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