Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re: "Dance of the Trolls") | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:19:35 +1100 |
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:49:46 -0700, "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org> wrote: >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. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Anton Altaparmakov" <aia21@cus.cam.ac.uk> >> 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.
Modutils 2.4.9 onwards gives a warning when loading tainted modules, including a reason why the tainting occurred. I will not accept anything stronger than a warning, that is the Unix way(TM), give the user enough rope to hang themselves.
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