From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tim.abbott@oracle.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:09:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328230952.GA6419@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+1xoqc+aX86HKgzZG0Z5dmN2PA5tSxT5PvD8-9U2xycmqvkBQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:57:47AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > For the patch below, what are the "real world use cases" that would
> > cause this to be needed in the stable kernel trees? �Is there an
> > in-kernel module that is affected by this limitation?
>
> There are no in-kernel modules which are affected, the "real world"
> scenario is debug modules generated by Ksplice.
So why is this needed for the stable kernels? This really looks like a
feature not a bugfix to me, how about you?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20120328220121.108CF26EF@git.kroah.org>
2012-03-28 22:41 ` Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit Greg KH
2012-03-28 22:57 ` Sasha Levin
2012-03-28 23:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-03-28 23:22 ` Sasha Levin
2012-03-28 23:32 ` Greg KH
2012-03-29 4:55 ` Rusty Russell
2012-03-29 15:20 ` Greg KH
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