Driver modules from the staging directory are marked 'tainted' by module.c. Subsequently, tainted modules are denied dynamic debugging. This is unwanted behavior, since staging modules should be able to use the dynamic debugging mechanism. Please merge this also into the staging-linus branch. Signed-off-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/module.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 1f9f7bc..71983f2 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2790,7 +2790,7 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, } /* This has to be done once we're sure module name is unique. */ - if (!mod->taints) + if (!mod->taints || mod->taints == (1U<<TAINT_CRAP)) dynamic_debug_setup(info.debug, info.num_debug); /* Find duplicate symbols */ @@ -2827,7 +2827,7 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, module_bug_cleanup(mod); ddebug: - if (!mod->taints) + if (!mod->taints || mod->taints == (1U<<TAINT_CRAP)) dynamic_debug_remove(info.debug); unlock: mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
