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Masahiro Yamada f8d94c4e40 kbuild: do not create intermediate *.tar for source tarballs
Since commit 05e96e96a3 ("kbuild: use git-archive for source package
creation"), a source tarball is created in two steps; create *.tar file
then compress it. I split the compression as a separate rule because I
just thought 'git archive' supported only gzip.

For other compression algorithms, I could pipe the two commands:

  $ git archive HEAD | xz > linux.tar.xz

I read git-archive(1) carefully, and I realized GIT had provided a
more elegant way:

  $ git -c tar.tar.xz.command=xz archive -o linux.tar.xz HEAD

This commit uses 'tar.tar.*.command' configuration to specify the
compression backend so we can compress a source tarball on-the-fly.

GIT commit 767cf4579f0e ("archive: implement configurable tar filters")
is more than a decade old, so it should be available on almost all build
environments.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2023-04-16 17:38:16 +09:00
Documentation Documentation/llvm: Add a note about prebuilt kernel.org toolchains 2023-04-08 22:48:15 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
arch purgatory: fix disabling debug info 2023-04-08 19:36:53 +09:00
block block: remove obsolete config BLOCK_COMPAT 2023-03-16 09:35:44 -06:00
certs Kbuild updates for v6.3 2023-02-26 11:53:25 -08:00
crypto asymmetric_keys: log on fatal failures in PE/pkcs7 2023-03-21 16:23:56 +00:00
drivers Revert "venus: firmware: Correct non-pix start and end addresses" 2023-04-02 10:47:03 -07:00
fs for-6.3-rc4-tag 2023-04-02 10:57:12 -07:00
include IOMMU Fixes for Linux v6.3-rc4 2023-04-01 09:17:33 -07:00
init init/initramfs: Fix argument forwarding to panic() in panic_show_mem() 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
io_uring io_uring-6.3-2023-03-30 2023-03-31 12:30:13 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel dma-mapping fixes for Linux 6.3 2023-03-30 16:09:37 -07:00
lib Fixes for 6.3-rc3: 2023-03-25 12:57:34 -07:00
mm 21 hotfixes, 8 of which are cc:stable. 11 are for MM, the remainder are 2023-03-24 18:06:11 -07:00
net More NFS Client Bugfixes for Linux 6.3-rc 2023-03-31 13:22:14 -07:00
rust Rust fixes for 6.3-rc1 2023-03-03 14:51:15 -08:00
samples LoongArch changes for v6.3 2023-03-01 09:27:00 -08:00
scripts kbuild: do not create intermediate *.tar for source tarballs 2023-04-16 17:38:16 +09:00
security keys: Do not cache key in task struct if key is requested from kernel thread 2023-03-21 16:22:40 +00:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Lenovo ZhaoYang CF4620Z 2023-03-29 14:45:07 +02:00
tools Including fixes from CAN and WPAN. 2023-03-30 14:05:21 -07:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM/riscv changes for 6.3 2023-02-15 12:33:28 -05:00
.clang-format cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations 2023-03-05 14:30:34 -08:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: move source components to rpmbuild/SOURCES 2023-03-16 22:45:56 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entries for Richard Leitner 2023-03-23 17:18:35 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS There is no particular theme here - mainly quick hits all over the tree. 2023-02-23 17:55:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Driver core fixes for 6.3-rc5 2023-04-02 10:10:16 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.3-rc5 2023-04-02 14:29:29 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.