From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
ast@kernel.org, atishp04@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 00:09:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190306230934.GA7915@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190118225543.86996-1-joel@joelfernandes.org>
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On Fri 2019-01-18 17:55:43, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
>
> Introduce in-kernel headers and other artifacts which are made available
> as an archive through proc (/proc/kheaders.tgz file). This archive makes
> it possible to build kernel modules, run eBPF programs, and other
> tracing programs that need to extend the kernel for tracing purposes
> without any dependency on the file system having headers and build
> artifacts.
>
> On Android and embedded systems, it is common to switch kernels but not
> have kernel headers available on the file system. Raw kernel headers
> also cannot be copied into the filesystem like they can be on other
> distros, due to licensing and other issues. There's no linux-headers
If your licensing prevents you from having headers on the
filesystem... then I guess you should fix the licensing.
I agree with Christoph, this looks pretty horrible.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-06 23:09 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
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 [this message]
2019-03-06 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-26 12:05 Norbert Lange
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