Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:41:04 +0100 |
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Ar Sul, 2006-10-22 am 22:41 -0700, ysgrifennodd Giridhar Pemmasani: > Note that when a driver is loaded, ndiswrapper does taint the kernel (to be > more accurate, it should check if the driver being loaded is GPL or not, but > that is not done).
However by then it has already dynamically linked with explicit GPLONLY symbols so it cannot then load a binary windows driver but should unload itself or refuse to load anything but the GPL ndis drivers (of which afaik only one exists), and even then they expect an environment incompatible with the Linux kernel.
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