linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH kmod v2 3/4] kmod: Add config command to show compile time configuration as JSON

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Message-ID: <429o975-ro63-o94r-qs96-76ro6o28on5@vanv.qr>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:52:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
cc:     linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kmod v2 3/4] kmod: Add config command to show compile
 time configuration as JSON


On Wednesday 2023-07-12 16:00, Michal Suchanek wrote:

>Show prefix (where configuration files are searched/to be installed),
>module compressions, and module signatures supported.

What about doing it like systemd and generate a .pc file instead 
that can then be queried like so, e.g.:

$ pkg-config kmod --variable=modulesdir
/usr/lib/modules