El 25/01/15 a les 23:01, Greg Kroah-Hartman ha escrit: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 08:32:59PM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: >> El 25/01/15 a les 19:07, Greg Kroah-Hartman ha escrit: >>> 3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> I don't have any objection apart from the description: IIRC the bug is >> triggered only if the kernel is compiled without module support. >> In any case I think that symbol_request should return NULL if the >> requested symbol is not available, either because the kernel has been >> compiled without module support or the required symbol is not provided >> by any module (though I think in the latter case it already works this >> way, at least it did at the time I wrote the driver). >> Or, as I said here >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/4/350 >> maybe symbol_request isn't the correct approach to provide multiple, >> alternative, implementations. > > The description is identical to what is in Linus's tree, so there's not > much I can do about it at this late point in time, sorry. I'm OK with that, but will somebody look at/clarify the behavior of symbol_request when modules are disabled? Bye -- Luca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html