Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:22:13 +0100 |
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Ar Maw, 2006-10-24 am 15:12 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka Enberg: > On 10/24/06, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: > > The kernel should not depend on a not-in-tree kernel module to > > taint the kernel. The kernel can and should do that itself. > > Agreed. But should the kernel disallow the use of _GPL symbols for > ndiswrapper? I would say no.
I'd agree providing the attempt to taint function allows an error return if it did so and it then refuses to load non-GPL windows drivers.
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