Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751926AbWLNBIJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:08:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751927AbWLNBII (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:08:08 -0500 Received: from vena.lwn.net ([206.168.112.25]:54584 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751926AbWLNBIH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:08:07 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1478 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:08:07 EST To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , Martin Bligh , "Michael K. Edwards" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:32:46 PST." <20061214003246.GA12162@suse.de> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:43:29 -0700 Message-ID: <22299.1166057009@lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 19 Greg's patch: > + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: This module will not be able " > + "to be loaded after January 1, 2008 due to its " > + "license.\n", mod->name); If you're going to go ahead with this, shouldn't the message say that the module will not be loadable into *kernels released* after January 1, 2008? I bet a lot of people would read the above to say that their system will just drop dead of a New Year's hangover, and they'll freak. I wouldn't want to be the one getting all the email at that point... jon - 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/