On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 09:30:06PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 9:21 PM Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 09:19:22PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: > > > Given that the Linux kernel officially supports out-of-tree modules, > > > > It does not officially support them as a first class entity. > > But out-of-tree modules are still a supported entity by the Linux > kernel, correct?
They are not supported, and any support request that includes them is typically rejected. > > It adds overhead > > Could you please explain what overhead this might introduce? It adds code that needs to be maintained and which is built into every kernel. > > > to the kernel just for leechers like you that don't > > actually contibute their code upstream. That's always a bad idea. > > I am not the GPU vendor, so I am unable to upstream the relevant code myself. Well, that's not the kernels problem. > By the way, here is a record of my contributions to the Linux kernel > over the past few years: Why would that matter? You don't get a wild card to do things otherwise rejected because you contributed something before.
