1. 05 May, 2008 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Make forced module loading optional · 826e4506
      Linus Torvalds authored
      The kernel module loader used to be much too happy to allow loading of
      modules for the wrong kernel version by default.  For example, if you
      had MODVERSIONS enabled, but tried to load a module with no version
      info, it would happily load it and taint the kernel - whether it was
      likely to actually work or not!
      
      Generally, such forced module loading should be considered a really
      really bad idea, so make it conditional on a new config option
      (MODULE_FORCE_LOAD), and make it default to off.
      
      If somebody really wants to force module loads, that's their problem,
      but we should not encourage it.  Especially as it happened to me by
      mistake (ie regular unversioned Fedora modules getting loaded) causing
      lots of strange behavior.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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  2. 03 May, 2008 17 commits
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