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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel/kallsyms.c: only show legal kernel symbol
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:44:13 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjpqb08q.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131030230920.GQ16735@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:20:19PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:44:30 +1030
>> > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> I don't know...  It would be your job, as the person making the change,
>> >> to find all the users of kallsyms and prove that.
>> >> 
>> >> This is why it is easier not to include incorrect values in the kernel's
>> >> kallsyms in the first place.
>> >
>> > OK, thanks for your comment, and I figured out one way to do it in
>> > scripts/kallsyms.c, could you comment on below patch?
>> 
>> Looks great! Seems like we spent more time arguing than it took you to
>> code that up.
>> 
>> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>> 
>> Russell, this seems logical for you to take along with the changes which
>> caused the problem?
>
> The changes are already in mainline since a long time (back in July/August
> time).  Am I the right person to take stuff for scripts/ ?  Isn't that
> more kbuild territory?

Kallsyms tends to fall between modules and scripts.  I assume it's not
urgent, so no cc:stable on this one.

Applied,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-31  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23  3:18 [RFC PATCH] kernel/kallsyms.c: only show legal kernel symbol Ming Lei
2013-10-24  1:21 ` Rusty Russell
2013-10-24  5:42   ` Ming Lei
2013-10-24  8:45   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-24  9:10     ` Ming Lei
2013-10-24 23:08     ` Rusty Russell
2013-10-25  1:29       ` Ming Lei
2013-10-25  5:50         ` Rusty Russell
2013-10-25  7:01           ` Ming Lei
2013-10-25 11:58             ` Rusty Russell
2013-10-26 12:31               ` Ming Lei
2013-10-28  3:14                 ` Rusty Russell
2013-10-28  5:23                   ` Ming Lei
2013-10-28  5:50                     ` Rusty Russell
2013-10-30 23:09                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-31  3:14                         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-10-31  4:55                           ` Ming Lei
2013-11-01  2:28                             ` Rusty Russell

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