----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Rostedt" <[email protected]> > To: "Steven Rostedt" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Rusty Russell" <[email protected]>, "Ingo Molnar" > <[email protected]>, "Mathieu Desnoyers" > <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Ingo Molnar" > <[email protected]>, "Thomas Gleixner" > <[email protected]>, "David Howells" <[email protected]>, "Greg > Kroah-Hartman" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 4:24:31 PM > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new > TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:11:56 -0500 > Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Although, is "N" the best letter to use for this taint? Not sure, but > > everything else I can think of looks to be already taken. Maybe "X"? > > You know. When you sign your name and don't know how to spell it, you > > just simply use an "X". :-) > > I actually think "X" is appropriate. You want signed modules, but the > module being loaded doesn't know how to sign its name, so we simply use > an "X" for it (in the taint flag).
I like the "X" idea :) Will prepare an updated patch with it. Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
