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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:09:52 -0700
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
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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