Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Mar 09 2018 - 13:23:35 EST




> On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Oh, and for the record, I like Andy's proposal as well as dumping this
> into a kernel module "blob" with the exception that this now would take
> up unswapable memory, which isn't the nicest and is one big reason we
> removed the in-kernel-memory firmware blobs many years ago.
>

It might not be totally crazy to back it by tmpfs.