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. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
