Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161008AbWJXMMn (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:12:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161015AbWJXMMm (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:12:42 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:30382 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161008AbWJXMMl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:12:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=qVK7arC3CTeD00Z4JQrmzF7jgrInhBA3FQ9QLE/Uk8toa/+JDk6sUIa5b4FeKwDUgtmEJTCIj8oui4SqbtKhx3eB/P8UMMd7Fp/SEkr/qICGPwq8c5PyfKXYRihb/Dq3PxGkTKRlNWAm84g9c4BIIw5HZbsYqrHcxKptHGX5FMA= Message-ID: <84144f020610240512y80a41bblcf8ce08c3875c008@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:12:39 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Randy Dunlap" Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper Cc: "Giridhar Pemmasani" , "Alan Cox" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20061023201135.0d8766c9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1161608452.19388.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061024024347.57840.qmail@web32414.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20061023201135.0d8766c9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2c1252254efd3215 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 525 Lines: 11 On 10/24/06, Randy Dunlap wrote: > The kernel should not depend on a not-in-tree kernel module to > taint the kernel. The kernel can and should do that itself. Agreed. But should the kernel disallow the use of _GPL symbols for ndiswrapper? I would say no. - 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/