linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] modpost: detect endianness on run-time

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Message-ID: <20240731-sassy-hysterical-petrel-fa7fcd@lindesnes>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:47:25 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] modpost: detect endianness on run-time

On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 04:42:02PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Endianness is currently detected on compile-time, but we can defer this
> until run-time. This change avoids re-executing scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
> even if modpost in the linux-headers package needs to be rebuilt for a
> foreign architecture.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>