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Message-ID: <9ff945e6-c963-41d2-9df2-542d83ada519@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 6 Aug 2023 00:30:22 +0530
From:   Shreenidhi Shedi <yesshedi@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 8/8] kbuild: modinst: do modules_install step by step

On 04/08/23 19:36, Greg KH wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the inputs Greg.

CC-ing linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org as suggested.

-- 
Shedi

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