Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re: "Dance of the Trolls") | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:49:46 -0700 |
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Anton,
This is a great suggestion. You should ping Keith Owens (does he own modutils, I think so) and make it happen. A much desireable change.
Jeff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anton Altaparmakov" <aia21@cus.cam.ac.uk> To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com> Cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>; <lobo@polbox.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 5:07 AM Subject: [Very-OT] Re: Nazi kernels
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > Oh, but you missed the mark! Think Windows XP. Now there's > > the ticket. If you aren't a Windows XP certified driver, they can > > just wipe your driver right off the face of the system... All in the > > name of "stability" (as they define it). None of this nonsense of > > merely flagging if their OS has a non-sanctified driver like Linux. > > Linux lets the driver load and run, it merely lets people KNOW that > > it's an un-sanctified driver when shit catches fire and burns. You > > know MS. MS thinks Linux is just a bunch of whimps. Screw just letting > > the user know AFTER something burps and burns. That's TOO complicated > > for a user to figure out and MS has to be "user friendly". MS is for > > men with balls (and no brains)... Just burn the driver BEFORE it has > > a chance to run. Yeah! That's the ticket! > > Let's not get carried away. Windows XP does allow you to install anything > you like. You just have to click several times on the Yes button when it > asks things like "This driver is not XP certified. Do you really want to > use it?" and "Installing a non-certified driver can cause system > instability. Are you sure you want to do this?" (text is probably not > quite right but you get the idea). > > I think we ought to do the same with closed source drivers. It's true > after all... The whole point of tainting the kernel is so we can just yell > at users to go and bug the vendor. So the modprobe executable could warn > the user "hey, you are loading a binary only module, it can break the > system, are you sure?". If the module is autoloaded we don't do jumping > through hoops asking questions so the systen runs smoothly. > > Best regards, > > Anton > -- > Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) > Linux NTFS maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ > ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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