On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 03:12:57AM +0100, Andrew Turner wrote: > > > On 25 Oct 2017, at 22:43, Colin Percival <cperc...@tarsnap.com> wrote: > > > > Hi developers, > > > > I'd like to remove the hpt* drivers from GENERIC. These are the drivers > > for the HighPoint storage hardware -- SATA (hptnr) and RAID (hpt27xx, > > hptiop, > > hptmv, hptrr). > > > > My reason for wanting to remove them is that the hpt27xx and hptnr drivers > > spend ~150 ms in their DEVICE_PROBE routines every time the system boots. > > Since they are roughly 1000x slower than the median driver, this is clearly > > excessive; unfortunately the time is being spent inside a binary blob, so > > there is no apparent way to fix the drivers. (The other three drives from > > the same vendor -- hptiop, hptmv, and hptrr -- don't exhibit this particular > > bug, but I don't see any strong argument in favour of not removing them > > along > > with the two problem drivers.) > > > > All of these are available via kernel modules, so the impact upon users > > should be minimal. Obviously I would not plan on MFCing this change. > > > > Any objections? GOGOGO > > Why are we building these binary blobs into the kernel? We don’t have the > source for these so it’s more difficult to audit them for security issues. If > the user wishes to load them as modules they are fine to do that, however I > don’t think we shouldn’t be linking any of these blobs in a GENERIC kernel.
I totally agree here! Bapt
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