Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:08:21 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tainting FAQ |
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John Levon writes: > short and sweet. (useful) comments ?
Maybe we're giving out too much information? To put it bluntly, if people are told what we're up to, they'll doctor the bug reports. People are selfish and will try to game the system. I'm not even sure if we should expose the term "tainted" in the first place. Maybe a "compatibility bitmask" with a hex value should be reported instead.
Alan: you're the instigator of this scheme. How widely do you want to publish what this is really about? I note that lwn.net had a paragraph on the tainting scheme.
Regards,
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