Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751889AbWJWKiA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:38:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751888AbWJWKiA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:38:00 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:43193 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751889AbWJWKh7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:37:59 -0400 Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper From: Alan Cox To: Giridhar Pemmasani Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20061023054119.75745.qmail@web32415.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20061023054119.75745.qmail@web32415.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:41:04 +0100 Message-Id: <1161600064.19388.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 17 Ar Sul, 2006-10-22 am 22:41 -0700, ysgrifennodd Giridhar Pemmasani: > Note that when a driver is loaded, ndiswrapper does taint the kernel (to be > more accurate, it should check if the driver being loaded is GPL or not, but > that is not done). However by then it has already dynamically linked with explicit GPLONLY symbols so it cannot then load a binary windows driver but should unload itself or refuse to load anything but the GPL ndis drivers (of which afaik only one exists), and even then they expect an environment incompatible with the Linux kernel. - 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/