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Message-ID: <2023080434-verbose-value-1200@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 16:06:06 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Shreenidhi Shedi <yesshedi@...il.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, dwmw2@...radead.org, masahiroy@...nel.org,
nathan@...nel.org, ndesaulniers@...gle.com, nicolas@...sle.eu,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sshedi@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 8/8] kbuild: modinst: do modules_install step by step
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 08:23:58PM +0530, Shreenidhi Shedi wrote:
> Currently Makefile.modinst does three tasks on each module built:
> - Install modules
> - Sign modules
> - Compress modules
>
> All the above tasks happen from a single place.
>
> This patch divides this task further and uses a different makefile for
> each task.
> Signing module logic is completely refactored and everything happens
> from a shell script now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shreenidhi Shedi <yesshedi@...il.com>
> ---
> scripts/Makefile.compress | 53 ++++++++++++++++++
> scripts/Makefile.install | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> scripts/Makefile.modinst | 111 +++-----------------------------------
> scripts/Makefile.sign | 37 +++++++++++++
> scripts/signfile.sh | 24 +++++++++
> 5 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.compress
> create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.install
> create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.sign
> create mode 100755 scripts/signfile.sh
As you are touching the build process, you should always cc: the proper
mailing list, and the KBUILD maintainer. Please do so for this series,
as that is the proper tree for this to go through.
thanks,
greg k-h
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