From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dmitry Goldin <dgoldin@protonmail.ch>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"joel@joelfernandes.org" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kheaders: making headers archive reproducible
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 17:18:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191004151846.GA760679@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <z4zhwEnRqCVnnV8RYwKbY9H_TEnHePR6grYfw1toELFA-iZidlp3T18y0w35JtWNghJQ3hwL23RrsKXIVJHYiv9wOsqmow33NU6LcHcFWyw=@protonmail.ch>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:40:07AM +0000, Dmitry Goldin wrote:
> From: Dmitry Goldin <dgoldin+lkml@protonmail.ch>
>
> In commit 43d8ce9d65a5 ("Provide in-kernel headers to make
> extending kernel easier") a new mechanism was introduced, for kernels
> >=5.2, which embeds the kernel headers in the kernel image or a module
> and exposes them in procfs for use by userland tools.
>
> The archive containing the header files has nondeterminism caused by
> header files metadata. This patch normalizes the metadata and utilizes
> KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP if provided and otherwise falls back to the
> default behaviour.
>
> In commit f7b101d33046 ("kheaders: Move from proc to sysfs") it was
> modified to use sysfs and the script for generation of the archive was
> renamed to what is being patched.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Goldin <dgoldin+lkml@protonmail.ch>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 10:40 [PATCH v2] kheaders: making headers archive reproducible Dmitry Goldin
2019-10-04 15:18 ` gregkh [this message]
2019-10-04 18:14 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-10-05 3:31 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-10-07 11:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-07 11:52 ` Greg KH
2019-10-07 12:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-08 8:07 ` Dmitry Goldin
2019-10-08 8:14 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-10-08 9:54 ` Dmitry Goldin
2019-10-08 10:27 ` Masahiro Yamada
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