Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265161AbUD3Lsi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:48:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265162AbUD3Lsi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:48:38 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:42507 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265161AbUD3Lsg (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:48:36 -0400 Message-ID: <40923D65.2010704@aitel.hist.no> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:49:57 +0200 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy Miller CC: Paul Wagland , Rik van Riel , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Rusty Russell , David Gibson , Marc Boucher Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <4FE43C97-9A20-11D8-B804-000A95CD704C@wagland.net> <4091757B.3090209@techsource.com> In-Reply-To: <4091757B.3090209@techsource.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: 1011 Lines: 24 Timothy Miller wrote: > > While we're on all of this, are we going to change "tained" to some > other less alarmist word? Say there is a /proc file or some report that > you can generate about the kernel that simply wants to indicate that the > kernel contains closed-source modules, and we want to use a short, > concise word like "tainted" for this. "An untrusted module has been > loaded into this kernel" would be just a bit too long to qualify. > > Hmmm... how about "untrusted"? Not sure... "Unsupported" seems a good candidate to me. It describes the situation fairly well. Such a kernel is unsupported by the kernel community, and probably by the binary module vendor too. They tend to restrict support to their own module . . . Helge Hafting - 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/