Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932141AbWAFKG7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 05:06:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932319AbWAFKG7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 05:06:59 -0500 Received: from smtp6.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.25]:49904 "EHLO smtp6.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932141AbWAFKG6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 05:06:58 -0500 X-ME-UUID: 20060106100657307.4AFF11C002AA@mwinf0601.wanadoo.fr Subject: Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules. From: Xavier Bestel To: Coywolf Qi Hunt Cc: Dave Jones , "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org, torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20060106094933.GB2807@localhost.localdomain> References: <20051203004102.GA2923@redhat.com> <20051205173041.GE12664@redhat.com> <20060106094933.GB2807@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1136541981.23641.56.camel@capoeira> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-1) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:06:21 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 16 On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:49, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > You've hard-coded some module names, that itself `taints' the > kernel source IMO. Blacklisting in kernel is both ugly and unacceptable. How about that: continue to blacklist ndiswrapper until it has capability to taint itself the kernel when loading a proprietary driver. Xav - 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/