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DateFri, 27 Oct 2006 00:32:15 -0400
FromFlorin Malita <>
SubjectRe: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper
Andrew Morton wrote:
> May be so.  But this patch was supposed to print a helpful taint message to
> draw our attention to the fact that ndis-wrapper was in use.  The patch was
> not intended to cause gpl'ed modules to stop loading (or if is was, that
> effect was concealed from yours truly).
> 
It's an unintended side effect of recent per-module-taint changes which
exposed the special nature of ndiswrapper & driverloader taints. Here's
where it went wrong:

Florin Malita wrote:
> No need to keep 'license_gplok' around anymore, it should be equivalent
> to !(taints & TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE).
> 

That turns out to be true for every module under the sun except
ndiswrapper & driverloader which are singled out and treated
differently: their proprietary taint has nothing to do with their license.
Randy's patch looks like a reasonable compromise to get them going again
- the alternative being the reintroduction of license_gplok or some
equivalent per-module flag just to support 2 hardcoded exceptions where
GPL incompatibility and proprietary tainting are not correlated.

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fm
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