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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:16:30 +0100
From: Ian Molton <spyro@armlinux.org>
To: "Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher" <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: The tainted message
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Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher Awoke this dragon, who will now respond:

>  > Warning: Module %s is not open source, and as such, loading it will
>  > make your kernel un-debuggable. Please do not submit bug reports from
>  > a kernel with this module loaded, as they will be useless, and likely
>  > ignored.
> 
>  well, that's not the truth: the kernel itself is debuggable, but we
>  don't know about the module, and how the module interacts with the
>  kernel.

It absolutely IS the truth.

what happens if an errant module clobbers kernel space?
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