Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: "Badness in local_bh_enable" - a reasonable fix? | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:00:06 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:20 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote: > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:24, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:01 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote: > > > What, you mean the driver? No, it is built from source against the > > > installed & running Fedora Core 3 kernel version 2.6.12-1.1380_FC3. > > > > No, your kernel is tainted because you loaded some otehr proprietary > > module. Maybe nvidia? > > Yes, I did have the nvidia binary kernel module loaded. After removing > it (not uninstalling; I just specified use of the X.org vesa driver > instead and rebooted) I get the same behavior - including the Tainted > notation.
Some other binary only module must have been loaded. The "P" in the Tainted line indicates that the kernel was tainted by loading a proprietary module.
Maybe you didn't do MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in your driver?
LLee
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