From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] make add_taint() inline
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:52:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050911155256.48bf15cb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050911124434.1967ac6e.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:44:34 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
> donate <donate@madrone.org> wrote:
> >
> > From: donate <donate@madrone.org>
>
> Who is this?
Just some little mistake that I have since corrected.
Sorry about that.
> > From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
>
> > add_taint() is a trivial function.
> > No need to call it out-of-line, just make it inline and
> > remove its export.
>
> Well, presumably add_taint() was exported to modules for a reason. If that
> reason was valid then this patch requires that `tainted' be exported to
> modules too. And that allows naughty modules to trivially zero it out.
Got it, thanks. That's why it said [RFC].
---
~Randy
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20050911103757.7cc1f50f.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2005-09-11 17:44 ` donate
2005-09-11 18:22 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-11 22:56 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-11 23:10 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-11 19:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-11 22:52 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
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