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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:07:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper
To: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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--- Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> wrote:

> Next question - what version of ndiswrapper started voluntary tainting (or
> has 
> it always?)
> 
> That is to say, are there versions of ndiswrapper floating around out there
> in 
> the ether capable of building against 2.6.19-rc* that don't voluntarily 
> add_taint()? (I'm guessing the answer is 'no', but the answer is possibly 
> important to consider)

Since version 1.0, ndiswrapper has been tainting kernel when a driver is
loaded. Version 1.0 is quite old (circa Jan 2005) and won't build with any
recent kernels.


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