On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 9:21 PM Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 09:19:22PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: > > Given that the Linux kernel officially supports out-of-tree modules, > > It does not officially support them as a first class entity.
But out-of-tree modules are still a supported entity by the Linux kernel, correct? > > > we should aim to support them where reasonable. My change is generic > > and improves the core code without being tied to any specific external > > module. > > It adds overhead Could you please explain what overhead this might introduce? > to the kernel just for leechers like you that don't > actually contibute their code upstream. That's always a bad idea. I am not the GPU vendor, so I am unable to upstream the relevant code myself. By the way, here is a record of my contributions to the Linux kernel over the past few years: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=yafang Given this history, I am puzzled by the "leechers" characterization. -- Regards Yafang
