Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:44:34 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] make add_taint() inline |
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donate <donate@madrone.org> wrote: > > From: donate <donate@madrone.org>
Who is this?
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> add_taint() is a trivial function. > No need to call it out-of-line, just make it inline and > remove its export.
Well, presumably add_taint() was exported to modules for a reason. If that reason was valid then this patch requires that `tainted' be exported to modules too. And that allows naughty modules to trivially zero it out.
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