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Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Jonathan Corbet , karim.yaghmour@opersys.com, Kees Cook , kernel-team@android.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Manoj Rao , Masahiro Yamada , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , rdunlap@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Thomas Gleixner , "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" , yhs@fb.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Message-ID: <20190119102800.GB17723@infradead.org> References: <20190118225543.86996-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190118225543.86996-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This seems like a pretty horrible idea and waste of kernel memory. Just add support to kbuild to store a compressed archive in initramfs and unpack it in the right place.