Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751000AbaBZFkj (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:40:39 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:35094 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750813AbaBZFki (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:40:38 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Johannes Berg , Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , David Howells , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE In-Reply-To: <1392970255.4346.14.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> References: <1392074600-21977-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20140211072738.GA24232@gmail.com> <20140211234534.6bc34e57@gandalf.local.home> <877g8zg0ed.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20140213161156.3548df43@gandalf.local.home> <878uteecu0.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20140220103033.32860caf@gandalf.local.home> <87lhx59yap.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20140220230938.0bf9614b@gandalf.local.home> <1392970255.4346.14.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.15.2 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:21:50 +1030 Message-ID: <8761o24md5.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Johannes Berg writes: > Going on a tangent here - our use case is using backported upstream > kernel modules (https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/) for delivering a > driver to people who decided that they absolutely need to run with some > random kernel (e.g. 3.10) but we don't yet support all the driver > features they want/need in the kernel they picked. Ah, a user! See, that's not the "I forgot to sign my modules" case the others were complaining about. > We push our code upstream as soon as we can and typically only diverge > from upstream by a few patches, so saying things like "crap" or "felony > law breaker" about out-of-tree modules in general makes me furious. Appreciated and understood. I have applied Mathieu's patch to my pending tree, with Ingo's Nack recorded. Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/