Re: [RFC] modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint

John W. Linville
2011-12-14T17:45:29Z

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:52:00PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 11:20 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > In some cases, it might be desirable to package a module from an
> > external source tree alongside the base kernel. In those cases, it
> > might also be desirable to not have those modules tainting the kernel.
> >
> > This patch provides a mechanism for an external module build to declare
> > itself as an "integrated build". Such a module is then treated the same
> > as an intree module.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> > ---
> > Any thoughts on this? I'm thinking of adding this to Fedora kernels,
> > where I have been working to integrate the compat-wireless package as
> > part of the base kernel RPM.
> [...]
>
> If you're integrating it then why can't you *really* build it in-tree?

Well, of course, I could. But it would be a _huge_ waste of my time
doing so. The compat-wireless package is already sitting there,
complete with all the necessary backporting infrastructure. It's all
fat and juicy, waiting to be used. Wasting time replicating that
just doesn't make any sense to my mind.

John
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