From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.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 22:04:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111025200455.GA6376@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111025165142.GA25354@elliptictech.com>
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:51:42PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2011-10-25 18:05 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 11:38 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > > This patch prevents the use of lockdep for debugging out of tree
> > > modules, which is rather mean.
> >
> > It was already disabled for staging modules, which seems equally
> > unhelpful.
>
> This is not the case: lockdep works fine with staging modules.
Yes, that was fixed a few kernel versions ago.
Now you might want to update that fix for the TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag as
well, if you feel it is needed.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-25 20:05 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
2011-10-25 16:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-25 16:51 ` Nick Bowler
2011-10-25 20:04 ` Greg KH [this message]
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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