From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Blaise Boscaccy <bboscaccy@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oid_registry: allow arbitrary size OIDs
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:03:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6650f9cdb0aa51068a9df452d53e35ea15e44cbd.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3954440.1764102914@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Tue, 2025-11-25 at 20:35 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > How big a problem is this in shipped kernels? Should we backport
> > it?
>
> Not really much of a problem. The OIDs that get compiled are all
> listed in include/linux/oid_registry.h. External forces can't add
> new ones dynamically.
Agreed, this only came to light because I was trying to add a 2.25 OID.
What's currently there is all under 32 bit, never mind 64 bit, so no
need to backport.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-25 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-25 18:19 James Bottomley
2025-11-25 18:33 ` Andrew Morton
2025-11-25 20:33 ` David Howells
2025-11-25 22:12 ` James Bottomley
2025-11-25 20:35 ` David Howells
2025-11-25 22:03 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2025-11-26 19:22 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " James Bottomley
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