Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261931AbUD1Xyt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:54:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262008AbUD1Xyt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:54:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:32437 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261931AbUD1Xys (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:54:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:54:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Marc Boucher cc: Tom Sightler , lkml - Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 902 Lines: 23 On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Marc Boucher wrote: > The problem goes both ways. Non-standard, unreported and hard to detect > kernel patches have caused numerous users to report alleged driver bugs > to us. You wouldn't know how much time and resources these things cost > us. The problem shouldn't be going both ways, though. It is your decision to publish a module that taints the kernel, so the support burden should not fall on the kernel community... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/