Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751315AbXBCToO (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 14:44:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751391AbXBCToO (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 14:44:14 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:57961 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751315AbXBCToN (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 14:44:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 19:56:07 +0000 From: Alan To: Russell King Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jan Engelhardt , Andrew Morton , Jon Masters , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag string termination trick Message-ID: <20070203195607.1db92edd@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20070203081426.GA10520@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20070203081426.GA10520@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 728 Lines: 19 On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:14:26 +0000 Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:08:14AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > This patch changes the module license handling code to: > > - prevent the "GPL\0 for nothing"-trick > > You can achieve this effect without changing the existing module > format, and it's far more difficult to bypass with build-with- > modified module.h tricks. Nice, this should go in anyway. Acked-by: Alan Cox - 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/