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Message-ID: <20071127212558.GA27481@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:25:58 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:09:42PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:00:37PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> > > 1) Why is everyone so concerned that export symbol space is large?
> > > - does it cost cpu or running memory?
> > > - does it cause bugs?
> > > - or are you just worried about "evil modules"?
> >
> > To clarify something here, by "evil", don't necessarily think "binary only".
> >
> > Out of tree modules are frequently using symbols that they shouldn't be.
> > Because they get no peer-review here, they 'get away with it' for the most part.
> > Until distro vendors push rebased kernel updates that removed exports that
> > should never have been exported, and suddenly people like me get bombed
> > with "Fedora broke my xyz driver" mails.
> >...
>
> The real problem is that these drivers are not in the upstream kernel.
You're preaching to the choir.
> Are there common reasons why these drivers are not upstream?
It varies case by case.
Dave
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