Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265115AbUD3QRQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:17:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265099AbUD3QRP (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:17:15 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:6929 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265160AbUD3QPn (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:15:43 -0400 Message-ID: <40927CC5.7060901@techsource.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:20:21 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helge Hafting 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> <40923D65.2010704@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: <40923D65.2010704@aitel.hist.no> 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: 1205 Lines: 32 Helge Hafting wrote: > 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 . . . > GOOD! And if people misunderstood "unsupported" to also mean that the VENDOR doesn't support it either, that's fine, because it's almost always true. :) - 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/