From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Justin Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>,
Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] gcc-plugins: Handle GCC version mismatch for OOT modules
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:38:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210127183856.moe3p5pxw6bbtunk@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210127180215.GA1745339@infradead.org>
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 06:02:15PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Please don't add all this garbage. We only add infrastructure to the
> kernel for what the kernel itself needs, not for weird out of tree
> infrastructure.
This isn't new, the kernel already has the infrastructure for building
out-of-tree modules. It's widely used. Are you suggesting we remove
it? Good luck with that...
Either it should be supported, or not. Make the case either way. But I
can't understand why people are advocating to leave it half-broken.
--
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-27 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-25 20:42 [PATCH RFC] gcc-plugins: Handle GCC version mismatch for OOT modules Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-25 21:16 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-25 21:27 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-25 21:44 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-25 22:07 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-26 8:13 ` Greg KH
2021-01-26 12:44 ` Justin Forbes
2021-01-26 13:51 ` Greg KH
2021-01-26 14:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-26 15:00 ` Greg KH
2021-01-26 15:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-26 15:46 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-26 16:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-26 16:15 ` Justin Forbes
2021-01-26 16:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-26 17:06 ` Greg KH
2021-01-26 17:47 ` Justin Forbes
2021-01-26 16:22 ` David Laight
2021-01-27 18:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-26 8:12 ` Greg KH
2021-01-25 22:03 ` Kees Cook
2021-01-25 22:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-26 17:56 ` Kees Cook
2021-01-26 18:43 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-26 22:59 ` Kees Cook
2021-01-26 23:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-26 1:53 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-26 12:16 ` David Laight
2021-01-27 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-27 18:38 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2021-01-27 18:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-27 18:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-27 22:09 ` David Laight
2021-01-28 14:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 15:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-02 23:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-03 18:49 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-03 19:15 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-03 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-03 19:38 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-03 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-03 20:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-03 20:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-03 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-03 21:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-04 12:27 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-04 15:08 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-04 15:35 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-04 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-05 2:41 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-05 2:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-05 16:03 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-05 19:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-03-08 9:39 ` David Laight
2021-03-05 15:31 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-03 21:52 ` Kees Cook
2021-03-04 12:26 ` Masahiro Yamada
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