Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263868AbUD0HEN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 03:04:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263870AbUD0HEN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 03:04:13 -0400 Received: from [81.219.144.6] ([81.219.144.6]:18437 "EHLO pointblue.com.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263868AbUD0HEI (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 03:04:08 -0400 Message-ID: <408E05DD.2080705@pointblue.com.pl> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:03:57 +0100 From: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Rusty Russell , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <408DC0E0.7090500@gmx.net> <20040427052655.GQ596@alpha.home.local> In-Reply-To: <20040427052655.GQ596@alpha.home.local> 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: 1465 Lines: 31 Willy Tarreau wrote: >What would be smarter would be to try to understand why they do this. At >the moment, it seems to me that their only problem is to taint the kernel. >Why ? I don't this that any old modutils/module-utils found in any distros >don't load properly such modules. So perhaps they only want not to taint >the kernel because it appears dirty to their customers who will not receive >any more support from LKML. So perhaps what we really need is to add a new >MODULE_SUPPORT field stating where to get support from in case of bugs, >oopses or panics on a tainted kernel. Thus, the module author would be able >to insert something such as "support_XXX@author.com" which will be displayed >on each oops/panic/etc... Even if this is a long list because the customer >uses connexant, nvidia, checkpoint and I don't know what, at least he will >get 3 email addresses for his support. And it might reassure these authors >to know that the customer will ask them before asking us with our automatic >replies "unload your binary modules...". > >Anyway it now seems like strings will have to be matched on their lenghts... > > And they will put linux-kernek@vger.kernel(.org) there :-) You never know... -- GJ - 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/