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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org> Date: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:00:35PM +1000 > Hi all. > > I'm probably going to regret this, but seeing the current discussion on > binary modules makes me wonder: > > What does tainting actually mean? > It means you can never be sure the bug is _not_ in some binary module. It may be unprobable, you may be able to find a bug in the kernel, but you're never _sure_. Jurriaan -- I am the pimple that forms before a really big date Darkwing Duck Debian (Unstable) GNU/Linux 2.6.6-rc2-mm2 2x6062 bogomips 0.05 0.02 - 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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