https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?h=scarthgap&id=85451cdaee4718233211da1e43db01f5cd2b1aff

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 12:54 PM Quentin Schulz via
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>
> Hi all,
>
> On 9/30/24 12:36 PM, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> > From: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
> >
> > Some wic images need this command. Since it is part of coreutils, it 
> > doesn't really
> > cost anything to have in HOSTTOOLS and it avoids signifiant build 
> > dependencies on
> > coreutils-native.
> >
> > [YOCTO #15571]
> >
> > (cherry picked from commit 522000ce5c4f0201cbe42d7826b6a8489ed10117)
> > [necessary for building Linux kernel >= 6.11 with CONFIG_KALLSYMS, c.f.
> >   
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1472464c6248575bf2d01c7f076b94704bb32c95]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > The Linux kernel in its 6.11 release or later, with KALLSYMS config
> > enabled, will now fail to build because truncate host tools is
> > required, c.f.
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1472464c6248575bf2d01c7f076b94704bb32c95
> >
> > but the kernel recipe doesn't depend on coreutils-native, which is too
> > big of a dependency for what it brings according to Richard (for the
> > original patch destined to wic) and Bruce (as discussed over mailing
> > list for the linux-yocto recipe).
> >
> > Let's backport a patch that was implemented for something else (wic)
> > from styhead/master as truncate is pretty much guaranteed to be present
> > on the host with hopefully no compatibility issues between
> > implementation.
> >
> > Marked as RFC because it's a "big" change and I don't want the ML to
> > just gloss over it without questioning it :)
> >
> > Note: I'm currently NOT building that kernel in my layer, but it'll come
> > at some point next year, though I did hit this issue when doing a very
> > quick test with a local tree.
>
> Any feedback on that patch?
>
> Cheers,
> Quentin
>
> 
>
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