From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] binfmt_elf: FatELF support for kernel modules.
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:54:34 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910200043200.18342@andre.icculuslan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADD0086.9060304@goop.org>
> > Allows kernel modules to be FatELF binaries.
>
> This seems much more dubious. It would only encourage more binary
> modules, which we're not very keen on doing.
I can understand that concern, but I worry about refusing to take steps
that would aid free software developers in case it might help the
closed-source people, too.
Those that will behave badly will do so regardless of file formats, but
distros shipping nothing but GPL'd software and in-tree drivers would
benefit from this more than another misguided company that probably
doesn't care about multiple CPU architectures anyhow.
--ryan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-20 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-19 14:41 Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-20 0:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-20 4:54 ` Ryan C. Gordon [this message]
2009-10-23 22:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-24 0:31 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-24 11:14 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 19:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-26 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-30 2:25 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-30 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-30 14:19 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-20 8:33 ` Américo Wang
2009-10-21 8:06 ` Ryan C. Gordon
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