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    SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries
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    On 3/9/18 10:23 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
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    >> On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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.

    interesting. how do you propose to do it?
    Something like:
    - create /umh_module_tempxxx dir
    - mount tmpfs there
    - copy elf into it and exec it?

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