Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752617AbbHTJ5B (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2015 05:57:01 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f48.google.com ([209.85.215.48]:34943 "EHLO mail-la0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752543AbbHTJ44 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2015 05:56:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150819190935.GA8443@milliways> References: <1439967036-18297-1-git-send-email-daniel.baluta@intel.com> <20150819190935.GA8443@milliways> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:56:55 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: I160n39LM3bjR7VuSex8fctO7Cw Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Extract kernel headers for out of tree modules build From: Daniel Baluta To: Ken Moffat Cc: Daniel Baluta , mmarek@suse.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , "octavian.purdila@intel.com" , bogdan.m.davidoaia@intel.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1297 Lines: 32 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:50:36AM +0300, Daniel Baluta wrote: >> scripts/package/builddeb already creates a linux-keader .deb >> package, but we need this feature also for non-Debian distros >> (e.g. Android or LFS). >> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta > > In general, LFS does not need this - but obviously we give you the > freedom to change whatever you do ("your system, your rules"). > > In particular, we assume that you will build on the machine where > the kernel will run, and also that you may need to rebuild the kernel > several times (for additional .config choices) depending on what > parts of BLFS you build. And we do not provide a package manager. > So I submit that we are the people least likely to need this. > > ĸen Hi Ken / Michal, While I don't see a huge problem having this script inside the kernel sources, I agree that we can push this to the distro packaging scripts. Thanks a lot for your feedback ;). Daniel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/