Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:25:05 -0400 | From | Adam Jaskiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license |
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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
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