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>Actually, we also have no desire nor purpose to prevent tainting. The purpose >of the workaround is to avoid repetitive warning messages generated when >multiple modules belonging to a single logical "driver" are loaded (even when >a module is only probed but not used due to the hardware not being present). >Although the issue may sound trivial/harmless to people on the lkml, it was a >frequent cause of confusion for the average person. > Would it not be better to simply place a notice in the readme explaining what the error messages mean, rather than working around the liscense checking code? Educate the users, rather than fibbing. -- Adam Jaskiewicz - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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