From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 05:42:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEXW_YQUcA+bnav20tAFQPXYE=epMie4X85diudKs_s-TJ7dsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdW_7BTZREsnz7uMTToCZ4HDOZboMJH8k8UZica2pB=Jew@mail.gmail.com>
HI Geert,
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 3:53 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > It is just so much easier to use tar + xz at build time, and leave the
> > decompression task to the user. After decompression, the files will live on
> > the disk and the page-cache mechanism will free memory when/if the files fall
> > off the LRUs.
>
> I'm also considering how generic and extensible the solution is.
> What if people need other build artifacts in the future (e.g. signing key to
> load signed modules)?
That sounds like it could be useful. I don't see any reason off the
top why that would not be possible to add to the list of archived
files in the future. The patch allows populating the list of files
from Kbuild using ikh_file_list variable.
thanks,
- Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-08 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-01 16:08 [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-01 16:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] Add selftests for module build using in-kernel headers Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-02 21:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel kbuild test robot
2019-03-03 16:11 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-06 12:26 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-06 17:49 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 4:59 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-07 14:54 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 23:23 ` Justin Capella
2019-03-06 18:16 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 4:54 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-03 2:04 ` kbuild test robot
2019-03-04 14:00 ` Qais Yousef
2019-03-05 16:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-04 22:48 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-03-05 16:25 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 8:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-07 15:03 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 15:23 ` Greg KH
2019-03-07 16:54 ` Joel Fernandes
[not found] ` <20190318185742.109dee5c@alans-desktop>
2019-03-18 19:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-18 21:11 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-08 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-08 13:42 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2019-03-08 13:57 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-08 14:04 ` Greg KH
2019-03-08 14:02 ` Greg KH
2019-03-08 17:58 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-08 17:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 7:16 ` Greg KH
2019-03-09 11:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 12:11 ` Greg KH
2019-03-09 16:51 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-09 19:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 21:44 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-11 8:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-12 15:15 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-11 23:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-11 23:58 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-12 0:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-12 1:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-12 1:38 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-13 1:18 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-03-14 12:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-15 13:14 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-03-12 1:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-03-12 15:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-12 1:22 ` Steven Rostedt
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