Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2019 14:53:54 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: "fs/namei.c: keep track of nd->root refcount status" causes boot panic |
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:50:24AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:48:32PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > Not sure what would be the best way to do it... I don't mind breaking > > the out-of-tree modules, whatever their license is; what I would rather > > avoid is _quiet_ breaking of such. > > Any out of tree module running against an upstream kernel will need > a recompile for a new version anyway. So I would not worry about it > at all.
There's much nastier situation than "new upstream kernel released, need to rebuild" - it's bisect in mainline trying to locate something...
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