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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:06:02 +0100
From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
 pageexec@...email.hu, spender@...ecurity.net,
 kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, Kees
 Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
 fengguang.wu@...el.com, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Linux Kernel
 Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:41:36 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:

> > The scripts name also doesn't describe gcc plugins well.
> 
> With my suggestion "scripts/gcc-plugins/",
> the sub-directory name describes it very well.
> 
> 
> > Plugins take part in the image building process
> > in a different way than these tools and scripts do.
> > Since there doesn't seen to be a good place for compiler plugins, maybe we should create a new toplevel directory
> > called "build". Compiler plugins and other existing build tools could live there. What do you think?
> 
> In my understanding, they are plug-in'ed into the cross-compiler that
> compiles vmlinux.
> 
> If so, GCC plugins should be happy in "scripts/"
> because Kbuild descends into "scripts/" before building any objects for vmlinux.

Ok, I'll move them under scripts/ in the next patch set.

-- 
Emese

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