From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:38:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures Message-Id: <20151110063821.GA31014@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <1447018493-20631-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <20151108221624.GP18797@mwanda> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kees Cook Cc: Dan Carpenter , Julia Lawall , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Tomi Valkeinen , linux-geode@lists.infradead.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:20:12PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > Just to remind everyone: while we certainly want to clean these up in > the code where possible, we still want to make the constification > plugin part of the regular builds. We want to provide a > secure-by-default build, even when vendors are adding their own > out-of-tree code when producing Linux-based products. So, we'll always > want to have the plugin as a back-stop for out-of-tree code, or places > where const was accidentally missed upstream. Who is 'we'? While a plugin like this that warns would be very ueful I strongly disagree with bloating the kernel tree with any infrastructure primarily aimed at out of tree code.