Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Mar 09 2018 - 13:30:07 EST


On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 10:23:27AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
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> > On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Oh, and for the record, I like Andy's proposal as well as dumping this
> > into a kernel module "blob" with the exception that this now would take
> > up unswapable memory, which isn't the nicest and is one big reason we
> > removed the in-kernel-memory firmware blobs many years ago.
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> It might not be totally crazy to back it by tmpfs.

Ah, yeah, tricky, but yes, I'd be fine with that.

Micro-kernel here we come! :)