From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: Export kexec_in_progress to modules
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:13:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161021.101343.1389577512803674816.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871szagtls.fsf@xmission.com>
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:26:55 -0500
> So as far as I can tell you are advocating for a change to support a
> driver doing something that is completely pointless. So no let's not
> export this symbol. Please fix the driver to do something less
> pointless instead.
FLorian explained his reasoning for doing what he is doing in this
specific driver and it made sense to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-21 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-21 1:15 [PATCH] kexec: Export kexec_in_progress to modules Florian Fainelli
2016-10-21 1:54 ` David Miller
2016-10-21 5:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-10-21 14:13 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-10-21 18:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-10-21 18:48 ` Florian Fainelli
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