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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:03:49 +0200
From: Gianluca Alberici <gianluca@abinetworks.biz>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper
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Hello,

i apologize for being bothering you twice in three days but i was 
wondering whether someone has found reason why ndiswrapper does not load 
on 2.6.19-rc2-mm2.

NOTE: it seems to be related to tainting

I try to resume a bit:

__create_workqueue         undefined symbol
queue_work                       undefined symbol

After patching modules.c to remove tainting of ndiswrapper i got to load 
it without problems but it doesnt seem a modules.c problem (those 
symbols are EXPORT_GPL since at least 2.6.18), modules.c and workqueue.c 
are as of 2.6.16 kernel.

Is there any new ?

If i can tell my user opinion about tainting is that it s...cks in 
general, dont know any case in which it fits something, i mean in life 
not just linux kernel.
One who uses ndiswrapper doest it at his own risk, a developer or 
debugger can manage...
And the blacklist hardcoded in modules.c, as someone used to say couple 
days ago, seems really hard to carry on !

THanks to anyone who will find time to show me the light,

Gianluca
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