The 'cpio' command is used solely for copying header files to the
temporary directory. However, there is no strong reason to use 'cpio'
for this purpose. For example, scripts/package/install-extmod-build
uses the 'tar' command to copy files.
This commit replaces the use of 'cpio' with 'tar' because 'tar' is
already used in this script to generate kheaders_data.tar.xz anyway.
Performance-wide, there is no significant difference between 'cpio'
and 'tar'.
[Before]
$ rm -fr kheaders; mkdir kheaders
$ time sh -c '
for f in include arch/x86/include
do
find "$f" -name "*.h"
done | cpio --quiet -pd kheaders
'
real 0m0.148s
user 0m0.021s
sys 0m0.140s
[After]
$ rm -fr kheaders; mkdir kheaders
$ time sh -c '
for f in include arch/x86/include
do
find "$f" -name "*.h"
done | tar -c -f - -T - | tar -xf - -C kheaders
'
real 0m0.098s
user 0m0.024s
sys 0m0.131s
Revert commit 69ef0920bdd3 ("Docs: Add cpio requirement to changes.rst")
because 'cpio' is not used anywhere else during the kernel build.
Please note that the built-in initramfs is created by the in-tree tool,
usr/gen_init_cpio, so it does not rely on the external 'cpio' command
at all.
Remove 'cpio' from the package build dependencies as well.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
82a1978d0f