On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 05:42:32AM -0800, Joel Fernandes wrote: > HI Geert, > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 3:53 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It is just so much easier to use tar + xz at build time, and leave the > > > decompression task to the user. After decompression, the files will live on > > > the disk and the page-cache mechanism will free memory when/if the files fall > > > off the LRUs. > > > > I'm also considering how generic and extensible the solution is. > > What if people need other build artifacts in the future (e.g. signing key to > > load signed modules)? > > That sounds like it could be useful. I don't see any reason off the > top why that would not be possible to add to the list of archived > files in the future. The patch allows populating the list of files > from Kbuild using ikh_file_list variable. Um, no, you don't want the signing key in the kernel itself, as that totally defeats the purpose of the signing key :) greg k-h
