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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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