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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Allow optional module parameters
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:01:01 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjxypztm.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363722051.3491.29.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>

Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> writes:
> This should also go to stable, so the downgrading issue doesn't continue
> to bite people.

Andy was complaining about experimental params going away: I haven't
heard a single complaint about the downgrading issue.  I think it's a
nice to have, which is why I mentioned it.  I also CC'd the two
maintainers most likely to know if it *is* a current problem.  And note
that this code has been this way for over ten years!

No bug report, no cc:stable.

What if people were relying on detecting module parameters by the load
failing?  I'd rather find out when they upgrade to a new kernel instead
of poisoning the old ones, too.

Cheers,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14 20:07 [RFC PATCH] Allow optional module parameters Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-15  5:03 ` Rusty Russell
2013-03-15 18:18   ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-18  2:24     ` Rusty Russell
2013-03-18 17:42       ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-19  2:32         ` Rusty Russell
2013-03-19 19:40           ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-19 19:40             ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-20  2:31             ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-03-20  0:26           ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-03-20  0:32             ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-20  0:36               ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-20  3:45             ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-01  6:50               ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-01 16:33                 ` Jonathan Masters
2013-07-03  0:28                   ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-03  0:28                     ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-03 21:03                   ` Michal Marek
2013-07-03 21:17                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-07-03 21:23                       ` Michal Marek
2013-07-03 21:30                         ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-03 21:31                         ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-07-03 21:36                           ` Andy Lutomirski

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