On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:09:42PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:00:37PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> > > 1) Why is everyone so concerned that export symbol space is large?
> > > - does it cost cpu or running memory?
> > > - does it cause bugs?
> > > - or are you just worried about "evil modules"?
> >
> > To clarify something here, by "evil", don't necessarily think "binary
> > only".
> >
> > Out of tree modules are frequently using symbols that they shouldn't be.
> > Because they get no peer-review here, they 'get away with it' for the most
> > part.
> > Until distro vendors push rebased kernel updates that removed exports that
> > should never have been exported, and suddenly people like me get bombed
> > with "Fedora broke my xyz driver" mails.
> >...
>
> The real problem is that these drivers are not in the upstream kernel.
You're preaching to the choir.
> Are there common reasons why these drivers are not upstream?
It varies case by case.
Dave
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