2023-09-08 09:58:14

by Christoph Hellwig

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.5 11/34] modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 08:07:08AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> And it's over 130 symbols, attached, I'll figure out a way to script
> this...

Eww. Sorry for missing this, and I suspect it really should be
entirely reworked in the future. But for now the scripting sounds
right. Let me know if you'd done anything, otherwise I can look into
it this afternoon Chilean time.


2023-09-08 10:45:25

by Christoph Hellwig

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.5 11/34] modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:31:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 08:07:08AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > And it's over 130 symbols, attached, I'll figure out a way to script
> > this...
>
> Eww. Sorry for missing this, and I suspect it really should be
> entirely reworked in the future. But for now the scripting sounds
> right. Let me know if you'd done anything, otherwise I can look into
> it this afternoon Chilean time.

.. and it turns out dvb_attach has already been deprecated for 5 years
time, it's just that it still has all these users around.

2023-09-08 18:22:15

by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.5 11/34] modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:35:38AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:31:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 08:07:08AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > And it's over 130 symbols, attached, I'll figure out a way to script
> > > this...
> >
> > Eww. Sorry for missing this, and I suspect it really should be
> > entirely reworked in the future. But for now the scripting sounds
> > right. Let me know if you'd done anything, otherwise I can look into
> > it this afternoon Chilean time.
>
> .. and it turns out dvb_attach has already been deprecated for 5 years
> time, it's just that it still has all these users around.

Yeah, apis never seem to go away. I'm scripting it now, almost done...

greg k-h