Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Thu, 2 May 2019 07:42:21 -0700 | Subject | Re: Patch "x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()" has been added to the 4.19-stable tree |
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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:02 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 10:47:07AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 6:36 AM <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}() > > > > > > to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > Why? ISTM the only possible effect is to break out-of-tree modules. > > I have no objection to breaking such modules if we need to, but, in > > this case, I don't see the benefit. > > The "benefit" is that people keep complaining that newer kernels do not > have this api for some reason and that it is a "regression", which > completely does not understand how the kernel handles internal apis.
I suppose that's a reasonable point. But maybe we should actually give these modules a credible alternative first? I just send a patch.
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