clarification of _shipped files intent
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PATCH 5/5 clarification of _shipped files intent
clarification of _shipped files intent
The rational for using _shipped files should be clearly indicated so that it does not look like it is encouraging binary blobs.
This patch is against linux 3.18.0-rc6
Note that the original file uses leading tabs so for this patch this was retained.
Signed-off-by Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]>
--- Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt +4 -1
@@ -268,7 +268,10 @@ module 8123.ko, which is built from the following files: --- 3.3 Binary Blobs - Some external modules need to include an object file as a blob. + Some external modules need to include an object file as a + prebuilt binary if they depend on exotic tools or if the + build time penalty of generating such files might be seen + to be too high. kbuild has support for this, but requires the blob file to be named <filename>_shipped. When the kbuild rules kick in, a copy of <filename>_shipped is created with _shipped stripped off,
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