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
next prev parent 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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