linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG

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Message-ID: <y0modbdnt4e.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:00:33 -0500
From:	fche@...hat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To:	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_MARKERS


Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com> writes:

> I notice in module.c:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_MARKERS
> 	if (!mod->taints)
> 		marker_update_probe_range(mod->markers,
> 			mod->markers + mod->num_markers, NULL, NULL);
> #endif
>
> Is this an attempt to not set a marker for proprietary modules? [...]

I can't seem to find any discussion about this aspect.  If this is the
intent, it seems misguided to me.  There may instead be a relationship
to TAINT_FORCED_{RMMOD,MODULE}.  Mathieu?

- FChE
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