Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264333AbUD0UdM (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:33:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264334AbUD0UdM (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:33:12 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:15366 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264333AbUD0UdK (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:33:10 -0400 Message-ID: <408EC478.9090502@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:37:12 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Friesen CC: Grzegorz Kulewski , Marc Boucher , Adam Jaskiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <20040427165819.GA23961@valve.mbsi.ca> <408E9771.7020302@mtu.edu> <408E9C59.2090502@nortelnetworks.com> <408EA22C.4090408@nortelnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <408EA22C.4090408@nortelnetworks.com> 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: 845 Lines: 24 Chris Friesen wrote: > Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > >> Maybe kernel should display warning only once per given licence or >> even once per boot (who needs warning about tainting tainted kernel?) > > > I think that's a very good point. If the kernel is already tainted, > maybe we don't need to print out additional taint messages. > That could be confusing if it's important for the user to know which modules taint the kernel. If tainting is only mentioned for the first tainting, then the user might be lead to believe that subsquent ones do not taint the kernel, even though they do. - 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/