Re: [PATCH v2] docs: changes.rst: add rsync to the list of required tools

[Sven Roederer <devel-sven@geroedel.de>]

Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2020, 21:13:36 CET schrieben Sie:
> Since 5.3 (59b2bd05f5f4dc) the 'make headers_install' call depends on
> rsync to deploy the files system wide.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Roederer <devel-sven@geroedel.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/changes.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index ee741763a3fc..114edabb21c8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> @@ -55,9 +55,11 @@ iptables               1.4.2            iptables -V
>  openssl & libcrypto    1.0.0            openssl version
>  bc                     1.06.95          bc --version
>  Sphinx\ [#f1]_	       1.3		sphinx-build --version
> +rsync\ [#f2]_          3.0              rsync --version
>  ====================== =============== 
> ========================================
> 
>  .. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
> +.. [#f2] rsync is needed only during final install of kernel-headers
> 
>  Kernel compilation
>  ******************
> @@ -161,6 +163,12 @@ is not build with ``CONFIG_KALLSYMS`` and you have no
> way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still
> decode that Oops with ksymoops.
> 
> +rsync
> +-----
> +
> +rsync is used to install the kernel-headers system wide with administrative
> +permissions. This was added in v5.3.
> +
>  Mkinitrd
>  --------

Hi, just pinging on this again. V2 of this patch was send, having the typo 
fixed.


Best Sven