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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Don't disable lockdep for out of tree modules
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:30:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obwcl4c3.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321433203.1421.69.camel@twins>

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:46:43 +0100, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 13:20 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > I guess it would be nice to get lockdep enabled for out of tree GPL modules
> 
> How about you get them in staging instead?
> 

I actually wanted to do a sample module to demo lockdep in one of the
presentation i am doing and that is when i hit the issue. I don't have
a kernel module that i would like to keep out of tree. I am not sure
there is any value in disabling lockdep if one load an out of tree GPL
kernel module.

-aneesh


      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16  7:50 [PATCH] lockdep: Don't disable lockdep for out of tree modules Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-11-16  8:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-16 11:00   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]

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