Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:51:23 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7 |
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On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:46:46 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>> Reverting is safe since it simply re-establishes the 2.6.21 status quo. > >>> > >> Well, not really. It breaks any non-GPL module when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is > >> enabled, even though the same module would work fine otherwise. That's > >> a pretty large regression. > >> ... > >> > > > > The 2.6.21 status quo can by definition not be a regression compared > > to 2.6.21. > > > > 2.6.21's behaviour was a bug. CONFIG_PARAVIRT is not supposed to cause > any behavioural changes.
2.6.22's behaviour is the bug. 2.6.21 you couldn't load random binary crap into the kernel without logging a taint. 2.6.22 you can. This means every single 2.6.22 bug report has to be assumed to be caused by binary module crap as a starting point which slows down debug immensely.
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