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Message-ID: <20210127185113.c3est2vssf5tlyyq@treble> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:51:13 -0600 From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Justin Forbes <jforbes@...hat.com>, Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] gcc-plugins: Handle GCC version mismatch for OOT modules On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 06:43:27PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:38:56PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > 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. > > > It is not support as any kind of interface. It is a little aid for > local development. Is this a joke? I've never met anybody who builds OOT modules as a development aid... On the other hand I know of several very popular distros (some paid, some not) who rely on allowing users/partners to build OOT modules as part of their ecosystem. To say it's not supported is a farce. -- Josh
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