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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Date:   Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:23:27 -0800
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> On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 

> 
> Oh, and for the record, I like Andy's proposal as well as dumping this
> into a kernel module "blob" with the exception that this now would take
> up unswapable memory, which isn't the nicest and is one big reason we
> removed the in-kernel-memory firmware blobs many years ago.
> 

It might not be totally crazy to back it by tmpfs.