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

- From: Andy Lutomirski \<luto@amacapital.net\>
- Date: 2018-03-09 18:23:31 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2018/03/5221343
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2018/03/5221306/t.md

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> On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Greg KH [ref] wrote:
> 

> 
> 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.
> 

It might not be totally crazy to back it by tmpfs. 
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