Commit c584476d authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada
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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: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
parent 49c386eb

Documentation/process/changes.rst

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@@ -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

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@@ -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

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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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