Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] linux-mod.eclass: support module signing

[Kenton Groombridge <concord@gentoo.org>]

On 22/07/05 12:02PM, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
> started playing with my old code and got blocked right away:
> 
> looks like dostrip just creates a list of files/directories to strip
> and processed at the very end of install phase.
> 
> so skipping strip and doing manual one might be problematic.
> internally portage uses estrip
> https://github.com/gentoo/portage/blob/master/bin/estrip
> which contains quite a lot of logic and code and I don't think
> partially re-implementing this in eclass code is appropriate.
> 

I agree I don't think it's appropriate. Would it make sense to be able
to provide an extra argument to dostrip in order to strip an object
*now* using the existing logic (and skip later stripping)? i.e.:

dostrip --now my_module.ko