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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2023-05-21 16:23:36 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2023-05-28 10:22:36 +0300
commitc584476d477e7617478dc9a305350629aa155f5c (patch)
tree1d6364d4ee59bce808e522826ed5628478b9173b
parent49c386ebbb43394ff4773ce24f726f6afc4c30c8 (diff)
downloadlinux-c584476d477e7617478dc9a305350629aa155f5c.tar.xz
doc: Add tar requirement to changes.rst
tar is used to build the kernel with CONFIG_IKHEADERS. GNU tar 1.28 or later is required. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index a9ef00509c9b..3c0074214d75 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ openssl & libcrypto 1.0.0 openssl version
bc 1.06.95 bc --version
Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 1.7 sphinx-build --version
cpio any cpio --version
+GNU tar 1.28 tar --version
gtags (optional) 6.6.5 gtags --version
====================== =============== ========================================
@@ -175,6 +176,12 @@ You will need openssl to build kernels 3.7 and higher if module signing is
enabled. You will also need openssl development packages to build kernels 4.3
and higher.
+Tar
+---
+
+GNU tar is needed if you want to enable access to the kernel headers via sysfs
+(CONFIG_IKHEADERS).
+
gtags / GNU GLOBAL (optional)
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