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    SubjectRe: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper
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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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