From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:06:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111006200652.GA22225@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14371.1317930822@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:53:42PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:50:07 EDT, Dave Jones said:
>
> > I feel a bit dirty overloading TAINT_CRAP (even if the name is apropos).
> > Should I introduce a TAINT_OUT_OF_TREE perhaps instead ?
>
> That would fix my biggest issue with the patch - it's a slippery slope. But if
> we bite the bullet and go straight to the bottom of the slope with an
> OUT_OF_TREE taint, I'd be happy with that.
>
> Is there a good way to identify at modprobe time if a module is in-tree or
> out-of-tree?
See my previous email, yes, we can do this.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-06 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 19:05 RFC: virtualbox tainting Dave Jones
2011-10-06 19:44 ` Greg KH
2011-10-06 19:50 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-06 19:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-06 20:03 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-06 20:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-10-06 19:58 ` Greg KH
2011-10-06 20:04 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-06 20:30 ` Greg KH
2011-10-07 8:01 ` Jiri Kosina
2011-10-07 10:02 ` Alan Cox
2011-10-07 16:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-07 17:01 ` Greg KH
2011-10-07 17:46 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-07 7:03 ` Bastian Blank
2011-10-07 14:40 ` Frank Mehnert
2011-10-07 15:10 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-09 20:12 ` Frank Mehnert
2011-10-07 15:16 ` Josh Boyer
2011-10-07 16:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-07 18:10 ` Josh Boyer
2011-10-07 18:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-10 7:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-10 8:25 ` Dave Airlie
2011-10-10 14:24 ` Greg KH
2011-10-10 16:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-10 16:49 ` Dave Airlie
2011-10-10 16:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-10 8:41 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-10-10 11:42 ` Josh Boyer
2011-10-12 0:57 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-10-12 7:55 ` Alex Riesen
2011-10-12 14:08 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-10-12 14:18 ` Alex Riesen
2011-10-12 15:00 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-10-12 19:55 ` Zan Lynx
2011-10-12 20:54 ` Parag Warudkar
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