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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
	tiwai@suse.de, tj@kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: teg@jklm.no, rmilasan@suse.com, werner@suse.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	hare@suse.com, bpoirier@suse.de, santosh@chelsio.com,
	pmladek@suse.cz, dbueso@suse.com, mcgrof@suse.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] taint: add TAINT_DEBUG for invasive debugging features
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:05:06 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d29tc2ut.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412372683-2003-2-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>

"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> writes:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
>
> At times we may add module parameters or debugging / testing
> kernel features, when enabled though we don't really want
> to be spending time debugging them. Add a taint flag for
> this to avoid spurious bug reports.

The recently introduced KERNEL_PARAM_FL_UNSAFE flag for module
parameters does this explicitly.  It uses TAINT_USER, should it use
this instead?

Thanks,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-15  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03 21:44 [PATCH v2 0/7] driver-core: async probe support Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-03 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] taint: add TAINT_DEBUG for invasive debugging features Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-15  5:35   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2014-10-20 20:37     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-03 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] module: add extra argument for parse_params() callback Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-04 12:55   ` [Cocci] " SF Markus Elfring
2014-10-06 20:38     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-06 21:06       ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-10-06 22:15         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-15  5:35   ` Rusty Russell
2014-10-03 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] driver-core: enable drivers to opt-out of async probe Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-03 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] amd64_edac: enforce synchronous probe Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-03 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] driver-core: generalize freeing driver private member Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-03 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] driver-core: add driver module asynchronous probe support Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-03 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] driver-core: add preferred async probe option for built-in and modules Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-06 20:19   ` Tejun Heo
2014-10-06 20:36     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-06 21:01       ` Tejun Heo
2014-10-06 23:10         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-07 17:34           ` Tejun Heo
2014-10-07 17:50             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-07 17:55               ` Tejun Heo
2014-10-07 18:55                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-07 19:07                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-10-06 20:41   ` Dmitry Torokhov

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