Re: module: add debugging alias parsing support

2017-12-07 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:01:02AM +0100, Djalal Harouni wrote: > Luis in your commit log you say: > > "Obviously userspace can be buggy though, and it can lie to us. We > currently have no easy way to determine this." > > Could you please share some info here ? how userspace can be buggy ? Sure

Re: module: add debugging alias parsing support

2017-12-04 Thread Djalal Harouni
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Jessica Yu wrote: > +++ Djalal Harouni [04/12/17 10:01 +0100]: >> >> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:17:11PM +0100, Jessica Yu wrote: Just some quick questions - are there any plans to use th

Re: module: add debugging alias parsing support

2017-12-04 Thread Jessica Yu
+++ Djalal Harouni [04/12/17 10:01 +0100]: On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:17:11PM +0100, Jessica Yu wrote: Just some quick questions - are there any plans to use these in-kernel module aliases anywhere else? Or are you using them just for d

Re: module: add debugging alias parsing support

2017-12-04 Thread Djalal Harouni
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:17:11PM +0100, Jessica Yu wrote: >> Just some quick questions - are there any plans to use these in-kernel >> module aliases anywhere else? Or are you using them just for debugging? > > As-is for now just debugg

Re: module: add debugging alias parsing support

2017-11-30 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:17:11PM +0100, Jessica Yu wrote: > Just some quick questions - are there any plans to use these in-kernel > module aliases anywhere else? Or are you using them just for debugging? As-is for now just debugging, but this could also more easily enable folks to prototype fur

Re: module: add debugging alias parsing support

2017-11-30 Thread Jessica Yu
+++ Luis R. Rodriguez [29/11/17 18:36 -0800]: Debugging modules can often lead to an alias question. We purposely don't have alias parsing support upstream as this is all dealt with in userpace with the assumption that in-kernel we just process aliases and userspace Does The Right Thing (TM) abou

[PATCH 3/3] module: add debugging alias parsing support

2017-11-29 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Debugging modules can often lead to an alias question. We purposely don't have alias parsing support upstream as this is all dealt with in userpace with the assumption that in-kernel we just process aliases and userspace Does The Right Thing (TM) about aliases. Obviously userspace can be buggy tho