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bin2c was, as its name implies, introduced to convert a binary file to C code. However, I did not see any good reason ever for using this tool because using the .incbin directive is much faster, and often results in simpler code. Most of the uses of bin2c have been killed, for example: -13610aa908("kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to embed config_data.gz") -4c0f032d49("s390/purgatory: Omit use of bin2c") security/tomoyo/Makefile has even less reason for using bin2c because the policy files are text data. So, sed is enough for converting them to C string literals, and what is nicer, generates human-readable builtin-policy.h. This is the last user of bin2c. After this commit lands, bin2c will be removed. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> [penguin-kernel: Update sed script to also escape backslash and quote ] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.