Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 2019 00:09:34 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel |
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On Fri 2019-01-18 17:55:43, Joel Fernandes wrote: > From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org> > > Introduce in-kernel headers and other artifacts which are made available > as an archive through proc (/proc/kheaders.tgz file). This archive makes > it possible to build kernel modules, run eBPF programs, and other > tracing programs that need to extend the kernel for tracing purposes > without any dependency on the file system having headers and build > artifacts. > > On Android and embedded systems, it is common to switch kernels but not > have kernel headers available on the file system. Raw kernel headers > also cannot be copied into the filesystem like they can be on other > distros, due to licensing and other issues. There's no linux-headers
If your licensing prevents you from having headers on the filesystem... then I guess you should fix the licensing.
I agree with Christoph, this looks pretty horrible. Pavel
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