Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161018AbWJXMTG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:19:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161017AbWJXMTG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:19:06 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:21711 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161018AbWJXMTD (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:19:03 -0400 Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper From: Alan Cox To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Randy Dunlap , Giridhar Pemmasani , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <84144f020610240512y80a41bblcf8ce08c3875c008@mail.gmail.com> References: <1161608452.19388.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061024024347.57840.qmail@web32414.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20061023201135.0d8766c9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <84144f020610240512y80a41bblcf8ce08c3875c008@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:22:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1161692533.22348.19.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: 740 Lines: 16 Ar Maw, 2006-10-24 am 15:12 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka Enberg: > 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. I'd agree providing the attempt to taint function allows an error return if it did so and it then refuses to load non-GPL windows drivers. - 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/