On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:13:45 -0500 Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011-12-06 01:38 -0800, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Commit-ID: df754e6af2f237a6c020c0daff55a1a609338e31 > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/df754e6af2f237a6c020c0daff55a1a609338e31 > > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> > > AuthorDate: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:13:49 +0100 > > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > > CommitDate: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:16:47 +0100 > > > > lockdep, bug: Exclude TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND from disabling lockdep > > > > It's unlikely that TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND causes false > > lockdep messages, so do not disable lockdep in that case. > > We still want to keep lockdep disabled in the > > TAINT_OOT_MODULE case: > > > > - bin-only modules can cause various instabilities in > > their and in unrelated kernel code > > > > - they are impossible to debug for kernel developers > > > > - they also typically do not have the copyright license > > permission to link to the GPL-ed lockdep code. > > This is all bogus. We have a proprietary module taint for the above. > Out of tree does not mean "bin-only", "non-GPL" or anything else like > that. It also stops people developing drivers of their own who are not building them in the kernel tree currently (eg when I'm building tests of the GMA500 graphics driver). This is a ludicrous patch and should be reverted Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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