From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:38:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111025153855.GA24779@elliptictech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k47tpvvm.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On 2011-10-25 14:26 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Subject: module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:12:28 +0200
>
> Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
> any good. We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
> should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
> little review.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
> ---
> Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 ++
> include/linux/kernel.h | 1 +
> kernel/module.c | 5 +++++
> kernel/panic.c | 2 ++
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 7 +++++++
> 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
This patch prevents the use of lockdep for debugging out of tree
modules, which is rather mean.
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-25 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-24 13:12 [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree Ben Hutchings
2011-10-24 13:58 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-24 14:57 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-10-25 3:56 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-25 9:52 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-25 15:38 ` Nick Bowler [this message]
2011-10-25 16:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-25 16:51 ` Nick Bowler
2011-10-25 20:04 ` Greg KH
2011-10-25 20:17 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-25 20:54 ` Greg KH
2011-10-26 13:08 ` Nick Bowler
2011-10-27 1:11 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-27 1:55 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-31 1:30 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-27 5:49 ` Greg KH
2011-10-26 4:16 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-26 6:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-10-25 1:37 ` Greg KH
2011-12-12 21:40 ` 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
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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