From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] No more module removal -- Unconference track
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:47:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140819154738.GB16948@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140819154029.GE5423@mwanda>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 06:40:29PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Why can't we just taint the kernel on module removal?
>
Why not just fix its bugs ?
If you want to taint the kernel on module removal because it is known that many
drivers have bugs in their removal code, you should taint the kernel if any code
is used which is known to have a bug. Or, in other words, just taint the kernel,
period.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-19 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-19 14:48 Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-19 14:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 15:23 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-19 15:40 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-08-19 15:47 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2014-08-19 16:09 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-08-19 16:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-08-19 16:59 ` Rik van Riel
2014-08-19 17:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 16:43 ` David Woodhouse
2014-08-19 17:13 ` Grant Likely
2014-08-19 17:23 ` David Woodhouse
2014-08-19 15:54 ` Takashi Iwai
2014-08-25 11:01 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-25 11:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-08-26 5:24 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-27 23:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-26 21:39 ` David Howells
2014-08-26 21:45 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-08-27 6:43 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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