Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:38:21 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures |
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:20:12PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > Just to remind everyone: while we certainly want to clean these up in > the code where possible, we still want to make the constification > plugin part of the regular builds. We want to provide a > secure-by-default build, even when vendors are adding their own > out-of-tree code when producing Linux-based products. So, we'll always > want to have the plugin as a back-stop for out-of-tree code, or places > where const was accidentally missed upstream.
Who is 'we'? While a plugin like this that warns would be very ueful I strongly disagree with bloating the kernel tree with any infrastructure primarily aimed at out of tree code.
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