Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/4] module: add support for unsafe, tainting parameters

2014-08-20 Thread Rusty Russell
Daniel Vetter writes: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Jani Nikula writes: >>> This is a generic version of Daniel's patch [1] letting us have unsafe >>> module parameters (experimental, debugging, testing, etc.) that taint >>

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/4] module: add support for unsafe, tainting parameters

2014-08-13 Thread Rusty Russell
types (eg. int and bool). So for the moment I prefer a more naive approach. Does this work for you? Subject: module: add taint_int type An int parameter which taints the kernel if set; i915 at least wants this. Based-on-patches-by: Daniel Vetter Based-on-patches-by: Jani Nikula Signed-of

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] [RFC] Taint the kernel for unsafe module options

2014-03-07 Thread Rusty Russell
Daniel Vetter writes: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:19:54AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Daniel Vetter writes: >> > Users just love to set random piles of options since surely enabling >> > all the experimental stuff helps. Later on we get bug reports bec

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] [RFC] Taint the kernel for unsafe module options

2014-03-07 Thread Rusty Russell
Daniel Vetter writes: > Users just love to set random piles of options since surely enabling > all the experimental stuff helps. Later on we get bug reports because > it all fell apart. > > Even more fun when it's labelled a regression when some change only > just made the feature possible (e.g. s