Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264213AbUD0RqO (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:46:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264222AbUD0RqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:46:13 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:39566 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264213AbUD0RqJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:46:09 -0400 Message-ID: <408E9C59.2090502@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:46:01 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Boucher CC: Adam Jaskiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <20040427165819.GA23961@valve.mbsi.ca> <408E9771.7020302@mtu.edu> In-Reply-To: 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: 1101 Lines: 27 Marc Boucher wrote: > On Apr 27, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Adam Jaskiewicz wrote: >> 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. > > > Good idea. We will try to clarify the matter in the docs for the next > release. > A lot of users don't read them though, so a proper fix remains necessary.. Does your company honestly feel that misleading the module loading tools is actually the proper way to work around the issue of repetitive warning messages? This is blatently misleading and does not reflect well, especially when the "GPL" directory mentioned in the source string is actually empty. A "proper fix" begins with not attempting to mislead the kernel/tools about the license... Chris - 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/