Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 05:42:32AM -0800, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> HI Geert,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 3:53 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > It is just so much easier to use tar + xz at build time, and leave the
> > > decompression task to the user. After decompression, the files will live on
> > > the disk and the page-cache mechanism will free memory when/if the files fall
> > > off the LRUs.
> >
> > I'm also considering how generic and extensible the solution is.
> > What if people need other build artifacts in the future (e.g. signing key to
> > load signed modules)?
> 
> That sounds like it could be useful. I don't see any reason off the
> top why that would not be possible to add to the list of archived
> files in the future. The patch allows populating the list of files
> from Kbuild using ikh_file_list variable.

Um, no, you don't want the signing key in the kernel itself, as that
totally defeats the purpose of the signing key :)

greg k-h