Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f176.google.com ([209.85.214.176]:32912 "EHLO mail-ob0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbbHLWCV (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:02:21 -0400 Received: by obbhe7 with SMTP id he7so23685940obb.0 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Wireless driver issue To: Sean Richards References: <55CB88DC.9070502@lwfinger.net> <3wfi1r0051B0Yuh01wiv6t@mac.com> <6FF30372-1A87-41BB-9BFC-1E92FE9FC51C@icloud.com> Cc: "Richards, Sean" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ft86drifter@cox.net" From: Larry Finger Message-ID: <55CBC237.7000006@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20150813_000224_938324_98770F39) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:01:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6FF30372-1A87-41BB-9BFC-1E92FE9FC51C@icloud.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/12/2015 03:51 PM, Sean Richards wrote: > > I was wondering if you could answer one more question for me. Would you mind expanding on this comment?? > > It will taint your kernel > > I am curious what you mean by that. When you load a driver that is not open source with the corresponding GPL license, a flag in the kernel is set in the kernel. If a kernel oops is later triggered, the dump shows that the kernel is so tainted. No kernel developer will look at that report until you reproduce it without loading the offending driver. Larry