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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Gilles May wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > >The attached patch blacklists all modules having "Linuxant" or "Conexant" > >in their author string. This may seem a bit broad, but AFAIK both > >companies never have released anything under the GPL and have a strong > >history of binary-only modules. > > > > > Blacklisting modules?! > > Oh come on! > I agree the '\0' trick is not really nice, but blacklisting modules is > not really better. It's not a functionality that adds anything to the > kernel. > If ppl want/have to use that module let them! Then they should list themselves as proprietory, there will be no problem loading them in that case. No need to tell fibs. - 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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