Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:31:05 +0200 | From | Carlos Martin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6: problem with module tainting the kernel |
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On 12/06/05, li nux <lnxluv@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks to Randy and everyone who replied. > Yes, I am using SuSE kernel. > On building the module it successfully generates > hello.ko. > Here is the message I get on doing a insmod of > hello.ko: > > "Jun 12 14:47:56 myhost kernel: hello: unsupported > module, tainting kernel." This means that the module is unsupported by SuSE/Novell and therefore vendor-tainted. It does not mean that the kernel is tainted in the canonical way. IIRC there are different types of tainting, and this is just one of them.
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