Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263957AbUD0J6x (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:58:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263969AbUD0J6x (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:58:53 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:15531 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263957AbUD0J6v (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:58:51 -0400 X-Authenticated: #21910825 Message-ID: <408E2ECE.9050804@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:58:38 +0200 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030821 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zwane Mwaikambo CC: Gilles May , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <408DC0E0.7090500@gmx.net> <408DCFE9.3040407@canalmusic.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 41 Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Gilles May wrote: > > >>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! If you had read the patch instead of complaining, you would have seen that the only change is to taint the kernel for those modules. > Then they should list themselves as proprietory, there will be no problem > loading them in that case. No need to tell fibs. Indeed. Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ - 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/