Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:03:25 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices | From | "Anthony DeRobertis" <> |
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> To triage bug reports. Any bug report against a tainted kernel is > almost certain to be bounced with "your kernel contains code that > we do not have the source for, send this bug report to the company > that > maintains the non-GPL code".
Couldn't this mess be solved with a module (optionally) containing a URL to a source-code tarball? Modules that come with the kernel would point to the relevant kernel sources on ftp.kernel.org.
This would alleviate all worry about things like closed-source BSD; after all, anyone could check if there is source availible with wget.
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