Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel

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To: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 02:28:00 -0800
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ast@xxxxxxxxxx, atishp04@xxxxxxxxx, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>, dancol@xxxxxxxxxx, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>, karim.yaghmour@xxxxxxxxxxx, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Manoj Rao <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>, yhs@xxxxxx
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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.

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