On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:20:12PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > Just to remind everyone: while we certainly want to clean these up in > the code where possible, we still want to make the constification > plugin part of the regular builds. We want to provide a > secure-by-default build, even when vendors are adding their own > out-of-tree code when producing Linux-based products. So, we'll always > want to have the plugin as a back-stop for out-of-tree code, or places > where const was accidentally missed upstream. Who is 'we'? While a plugin like this that warns would be very ueful I strongly disagree with bloating the kernel tree with any infrastructure primarily aimed at out of tree code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
