From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753208Ab1JYUFb (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:05:31 -0400 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:52850 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751671Ab1JYUFa (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:05:30 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: d/VY4QCLghkCyiCQK9dPLrYfZONZN6dsLNbDqWLbe5D4 1319573129 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:04:55 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Nick Bowler Cc: Ben Hutchings , Rusty Russell , Randy Dunlap , LKML , Dave Jones , Debian kernel maintainers Subject: Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree Message-ID: <20111025200455.GA6376@kroah.com> References: <1319461948.31243.31.camel@deadeye> <4EA57CBF.2050901@xenotime.net> <87k47tpvvm.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20111025153855.GA24779@elliptictech.com> <1319558749.11727.6.camel@deadeye> <20111025165142.GA25354@elliptictech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111025165142.GA25354@elliptictech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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