Re: [PATCH] oid_registry: allow arbitrary size OIDs

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2025-11-25 at 20:35 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > How big a problem is this in shipped kernels?  Should we backport
> > it?
> 
> Not really much of a problem.  The OIDs that get compiled are all
> listed in include/linux/oid_registry.h.  External forces can't add
> new ones dynamically.

Agreed, this only came to light because I was trying to add a 2.25 OID.
What's currently there is all under 32 bit, never mind 64 bit, so no
need to backport.

James