Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263702AbUD0DOY (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:14:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263708AbUD0DOY (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:14:24 -0400 Received: from canalmusic.webnext.com ([213.161.194.17]:16901 "HELO www.canalmusic.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263702AbUD0DOW (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:14:22 -0400 Message-ID: <408DCFE9.3040407@canalmusic.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:13:45 +0200 From: Gilles May User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <408DC0E0.7090500@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <408DC0E0.7090500@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 28 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >The attached patch blacklists all modules having "Linuxant" or "Conexant" >in their author string. This may seem a bit broad, but AFAIK both >companies never have released anything under the GPL and have a strong >history of binary-only modules. > > Blacklisting modules?! Oh come on! I agree the '\0' trick is not really nice, but blacklisting modules is not really better. It's not a functionality that adds anything to the kernel. If ppl want/have to use that module let them! Take care, Gilles -- If you don't live for something you'll die for nothing! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/