From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:21:50 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761o24md5.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392970255.4346.14.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> Going on a tangent here - our use case is using backported upstream
> kernel modules (https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/) for delivering a
> driver to people who decided that they absolutely need to run with some
> random kernel (e.g. 3.10) but we don't yet support all the driver
> features they want/need in the kernel they picked.
Ah, a user! See, that's not the "I forgot to sign my modules" case the
others were complaining about.
> We push our code upstream as soon as we can and typically only diverge
> from upstream by a few patches, so saying things like "crap" or "felony
> law breaker" about out-of-tree modules in general makes me furious.
Appreciated and understood.
I have applied Mathieu's patch to my pending tree, with Ingo's Nack
recorded.
Thanks,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-26 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-10 23:23 [RFC PATCH] Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-11 7:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-02-12 4:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-12 5:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-13 3:24 ` Rusty Russell
2014-02-13 21:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-13 21:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-14 3:32 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-14 0:51 ` Rusty Russell
2014-02-16 23:58 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-20 15:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-20 23:09 ` Rusty Russell
2014-02-21 4:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-21 8:10 ` Johannes Berg
2014-02-26 2:51 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2014-02-26 12:55 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-13 15:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-13 15:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-13 15:36 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-02-13 15:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-13 21:42 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-13 15:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-13 20:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-14 3:49 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-24 15:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-24 16:55 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-24 17:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-24 17:58 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-24 18:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-26 19:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-26 2:53 ` Rusty Russell
2014-02-26 20:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-24 18:32 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-24 19:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-26 14:23 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-02-26 15:05 ` Steven Rostedt
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