Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 03:07:03 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > BTW, for the peanut gallery: I don't recommend modversions: it's not
> > reliable in detecting all differences, nor being stable when there are no
> > real differences.
...
> So I agree that modversions is not "reliable", but I think that the
> alternative is often even *less* reliable, so I find the "don't recommend
> modversions" comment to be pretty debatable.

Kids: do not shove random modules into your kernel.  Just because Linus does 
something doesn't make it a good idea.  modversions tries to be clever, but 
don't count on it; you want module signing for this (where did those patches 
go?)

BTW, I'm fascinated and a little nausiated that you ignore initrds.  We've 
moved half the kernel brains to userspace with udev, initrd and modules; it's 
really unfair that you're not sharing all that why-won't-my-machine-boot 
love.

Cheers,
Rusty.