Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264210AbUD0RY5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:24:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264211AbUD0RY5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:24:57 -0400 Received: from mailoff.mtu.edu ([141.219.70.111]:27804 "EHLO mailoff.mtu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264210AbUD0RYz (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:24:55 -0400 Message-ID: <408E9771.7020302@mtu.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:25:05 -0400 From: Adam Jaskiewicz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040210) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Boucher CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <20040427165819.GA23961@valve.mbsi.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040427165819.GA23961@valve.mbsi.ca> 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: 910 Lines: 21 >Actually, we also have no desire nor purpose to prevent tainting. The purpose >of the workaround is to avoid repetitive warning messages generated when >multiple modules belonging to a single logical "driver" are loaded (even when >a module is only probed but not used due to the hardware not being present). >Although the issue may sound trivial/harmless to people on the lkml, it was a >frequent cause of confusion for the average person. > Would it not be better to simply place a notice in the readme explaining what the error messages mean, rather than working around the liscense checking code? Educate the users, rather than fibbing. -- Adam Jaskiewicz - 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/