From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@frijolero.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:52:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323881520.2825.196.camel@deadeye> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323879603-2961-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
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On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 11:20 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> In some cases, it might be desirable to package a module from an
> external source tree alongside the base kernel. In those cases, it
> might also be desirable to not have those modules tainting the kernel.
>
> This patch provides a mechanism for an external module build to declare
> itself as an "integrated build". Such a module is then treated the same
> as an intree module.
>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> ---
> Any thoughts on this? I'm thinking of adding this to Fedora kernels,
> where I have been working to integrate the compat-wireless package as
> part of the base kernel RPM.
[...]
If you're integrating it then why can't you *really* build it in-tree?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-14 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1319461948.31243.31.camel@deadeye>
2011-12-12 21:40 ` [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-12-12 21:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-12 22:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-12-12 22:49 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-12-13 5:02 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-14 16:20 ` [RFC] modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint John W. Linville
2011-12-14 16:52 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-12-14 17:39 ` John W. Linville
[not found] ` <87mxatp3ty.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-12-16 4:39 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-19 5:45 ` Rusty Russell
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