Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:48:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
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       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers Support for Proprierary Modules
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On Jan 25 2008 23:21, Jon Masters wrote:
>On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 14:27 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
>> 2) Unconditionally reject modules with a wrong module section size.  Currently 
>> we have no such check, which means without KALLSYMS, anything goes.
>
>I favor the latter, since it's safest.

Is it possible to keep allowing the case where {section size is the
same and only the symversions are different}?
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