Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re: "Dance of the Trolls") | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:57:02 -0700 |
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Sounds like it's already there.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Owens" <kaos@ocs.com.au> To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re: "Dance of the Trolls")
> 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. > > - > 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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