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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/2] ftrace/module: remove ftrace module notifier
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:08:16PM -0500, Jessica Yu wrote:
> Remove the ftrace module notifier in favor of directly calling
> ftrace_module_enable() and ftrace_release_mod() in the module loader.
> Hard-coding the function calls directly in the module loader removes
> dependence on the module notifier call chain and provides better
> visibility and control over what gets called when, which is important
> to kernel utilities such as livepatch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>

This is also fixing the bug described in the cover letter, so it would
be good to add a description of that here and a corresponding "Fixes:"
tag.

--
Josh

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