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Hi Adam, On Apr 27, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Adam Jaskiewicz wrote: > >> 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. Good idea. We will try to clarify the matter in the docs for the next release. A lot of users don't read them though, so a proper fix remains necessary.. Regards Marc -- Marc Boucher President Linuxant inc. http://www.linuxant.com > > -- > 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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