Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755924AbYCTMa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:30:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753296AbYCTMaW (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:30:22 -0400 Received: from tomts40.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.97]:55606 "EHLO tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753363AbYCTMaV (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:30:21 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqQFAKb14UdMQWoK/2dsb2JhbACBWqkC Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:30:14 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Rusty Russell Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Jon Masters , Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] Markers Support for Proprierary Modules Message-ID: <20080320123014.GA15987@Krystal> References: <20080320002737.918213455@polymtl.ca> <20080320002835.384758480@polymtl.ca> <200803201635.30795.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200803201635.30795.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 08:27:40 up 20 days, 8:38, 4 users, load average: 0.65, 0.65, 0.71 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1262 Lines: 31 * Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au) wrote: > On Thursday 20 March 2008 11:27:41 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > There seems to be good arguments for markers to support proprierary > > modules. So I am throwing this one-liner in and let's see how people react. > > It only makes sure that a module that has been "forced" to be loaded won't > > have its markers used. It is important to leave this check to make sure the > > kernel does not crash by expecting the markers part of the struct module by > > mistake in the case there is an incorrect checksum. > > OK, I've applied this to my tree. That means it will be in 2.6.26 unless you > want me to push it earlier. > > Thanks, > Rusty. I think it's ok to wait for 2.6.26, since we are already very far in the 2.6.25 release process and it's more a "feature" than a "bugfix". Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- 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/