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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: Add tar requirement to changes.rst
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 22:23:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230521132336.1279523-2-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230521132336.1279523-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>

tar is used to build the kernel with CONFIG_IKHEADERS.

GNU tar 1.28 or later is required.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

 Documentation/process/changes.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index a9ef00509c9b..3c0074214d75 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ openssl & libcrypto    1.0.0            openssl version
 bc                     1.06.95          bc --version
 Sphinx\ [#f1]_         1.7              sphinx-build --version
 cpio                   any              cpio --version
+GNU tar                1.28             tar --version
 gtags (optional)       6.6.5            gtags --version
 ====================== ===============  ========================================
 
@@ -175,6 +176,12 @@ You will need openssl to build kernels 3.7 and higher if module signing is
 enabled.  You will also need openssl development packages to build kernels 4.3
 and higher.
 
+Tar
+---
+
+GNU tar is needed if you want to enable access to the kernel headers via sysfs
+(CONFIG_IKHEADERS).
+
 gtags / GNU GLOBAL (optional)
 -----------------------------
 
-- 
2.39.2


  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-21 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-21 13:23 [PATCH 1/2] Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation" Masahiro Yamada
2023-05-21 13:23 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2023-05-24 20:12   ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: Add tar requirement to changes.rst Nicolas Schier
2023-05-28  7:15     ` Masahiro Yamada
2023-05-30 18:54       ` Nicolas Schier
2023-05-24 20:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation" Nicolas Schier

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