linux-kernel - Re: taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true or false

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:34:29 +0000
From:   Sid Boyce <sboyce@...eyonder.co.uk>
To:     LKML Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true
 or false

Latest pull of 4.10-rc4 includes the fix.
Kernel builds and so does modules for VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.14_112924.
# lsmod|grep vbox
vboxpci                24576  0
vboxnetadp             28672  0
vboxnetflt             28672  0
vboxdrv               417792  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci

git show
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commit 0aa0313f9d576affd7747cc3f179feb097d28990
Merge: 4b19a9e20bf9 5eb7c0d04f04
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 17 14:49:21 2017 -0800

     Merge tag 'modules-for-v4.10-rc5' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux

     Pull modules fix from Jessica Yu:

      - fix out-of-tree module breakage when it supplies its own definitions
        of true and false

     * tag 'modules-for-v4.10-rc5' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
       taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true 
or false
Regards
Sid.

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