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Lee Revell wrote: > Why? There's no technical or legal requirement for userspace drivers to > be GPLed. I could see a benefit to tainting the kernel once userspace starts poking at the hardware directly. That way at least we'd know that a crash might be due to userspace doing bad things. For instance, consider the case where userspace misprograms a DMA engine, which starts overwriting random kernel memory. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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