2001-10-23 03:43:28

by Mike Fedyk

Subject: NTFS causes tainted kernel?

Warning: loading
/lib/modules/2.4.12-ac5+acct-entropy+preempt+netdev-ramdom+vm-free-swapcache/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.o
will taint the kernel: no license

2001-10-23 15:15:03

by Richard Russon

Subject: Re: NTFS causes tainted kernel?

Hi Linus, Alan.

Please can you apply the following patch to pre6/ac5.
It adds a module license to the NTFS driver.
(Anton's happy with the patch).

Cheers,
FlatCap (Rich)
[email protected]


diff -urN linux-2.4.13-pre6/fs/ntfs/fs.c linux-2.4.13-pre6-ntfs/fs/ntfs/fs.c
--- linux-2.4.13-pre6/fs/ntfs/fs.c Tue Oct 23 15:49:53 2001
+++ linux-2.4.13-pre6-ntfs/fs/ntfs/fs.c Tue Oct 23 15:50:23 2001
@@ -1159,6 +1159,7 @@
*/
MODULE_AUTHOR("Anton Altaparmakov <[email protected]>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linux NTFS driver");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#ifdef DEBUG
MODULE_PARM(ntdebug, "i");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(ntdebug, "Debug level");