Re: [PATCH] kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation

2019-10-09 Thread Dmitry Goldin
Hi again, Sorry for the delay, I'm currently traveling and only have access to a rather weak machine so compiles took ages. A few remarks regarding this patch; This version is not fully identical to the previous invocation, as the sort order differs a little, but I tried to get it as close to

[PATCH] kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation

2019-10-09 Thread Dmitry Goldin
From: Dmitry Goldin The option --sort=ORDER was only introduced in tar 1.28 (2014), which is rather new and might not be available in some setups. This patch tries to replicate the previous behaviour as closely as possible to fix the kheaders build for older environments. It does not produce

Re: [PATCH v2] kheaders: making headers archive reproducible

2019-10-08 Thread Dmitry Goldin
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:14 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 5:07 PM Dmitry Goldin dgol...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > Hmm. --sort was introduced in 1.28 in 2014. Do you think it would warrant > > some sort of version

Re: [PATCH v2] kheaders: making headers archive reproducible

2019-10-08 Thread Dmitry Goldin
Hi, ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, October 7, 2019 2:26 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Okt 07 2019, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:49:47PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > > > GEN kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz > > > tar: unrecognized

[PATCH v2] kheaders: making headers archive reproducible

2019-10-04 Thread Dmitry Goldin
From: Dmitry Goldin In commit 43d8ce9d65a5 ("Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier") a new mechanism was introduced, for kernels >=5.2, which embeds the kernel headers in the kernel image or a module and exposes them in procfs for use by userland tools.

[PATCH] kheaders: making headers archive reproducible

2019-09-22 Thread Dmitry Goldin
From: Dmitry Goldin In commit 43d8ce9d65a5 ("Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier") a new mechanism was introduced, for kernels >=5.2, which embeds the kernel headers in the kernel image or a module and exposed them in procfs for use by userland tools.