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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tim.abbott@oracle.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:09:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328230952.GA6419@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+1xoqc+aX86HKgzZG0Z5dmN2PA5tSxT5PvD8-9U2xycmqvkBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:57:47AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > For the patch below, what are the "real world use cases" that would
> > cause this to be needed in the stable kernel trees? �Is there an
> > in-kernel module that is affected by this limitation?
> 
> There are no in-kernel modules which are affected, the "real world"
> scenario is debug modules generated by Ksplice.

So why is this needed for the stable kernels?  This really looks like a
feature not a bugfix to me, how about you?

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-28 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20120328220121.108CF26EF@git.kroah.org>
2012-03-28 22:41 ` Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit Greg KH
2012-03-28 22:57   ` Sasha Levin
2012-03-28 23:09     ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-03-28 23:22       ` Sasha Levin
2012-03-28 23:32         ` Greg KH
2012-03-29  4:55           ` Rusty Russell
2012-03-29 15:20             ` Greg KH

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