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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:35:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.

So the idea of tainting is to _prevent_ any binary code being loaded into
kernel, even if kernel is marked as having binary code loaded, which I
thought was the purpose of tainting (so that people not interested in dealing
with binary code know they don't have/want to)? If that is the goal, how do
you know this scheme of adding names to module loader in kernel guarantees
that (now or in future)? 

Thanks,
Giri

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