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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:08:30 +0200
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@cogenit.fr>
To: Richard Thrapp <rthrapp@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: The tainted message
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Richard Thrapp <rthrapp@sbcglobal.net> :
[...]
> First of all, the current tainted message is not really useful. 
> "Warning: Loading %s will taint the kernel..." isn't very informative at
> all.  Most people don't know what it means to "taint the  kernel".  It's

Add a reference to http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s1-18. An explanation is already
there.

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Ueimor
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