Re: taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Oct 25 2016 - 21:35:18 EST


Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Jessica Yu wrote:
>
>> Hm, quick question, which tree would this patch go to? Though the
>> cleanup is for modules, there is an indirect cross-tree dependency
>> (taint_flag.module needs to be true for TAINT_LIVEPATCH for Josh's
>> patch to still work as intended). The least complicated thing to do
>> would be to just take this through the livepatch tree (with Rusty's
>> approval :-)), no?
>
> I don't want to be sneaking this behind Rusty's back, but he hasn't
> reposnded so far.

I finally side-stepped this by appointing Jessica maintainer, thus her
Reviewed-by is sufficient for the module tree.

Lazy, huh?

Sorry for the delay,
Rusty.

> It's not vitally super-crucial to have this present in this very pull
> request, so I am currently putting this on hold wrt. the upcoming merge
> window pull request, and we'll then proceeed afterwards once Rusty
> expressess his (n)ack. If this doesn't happen during the coming weeks,
> I'll pick this up myself.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs