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SubjectRe: Tainting kernels for non-GPL or forced modules
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:33:44PM +0200, Andr? Dahlqvist wrote:
> Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
>
> > IMHO the default should be complain and taint, even though it will
> > generate lots of newbie questions to l-k.
>
> Wasn't it those questions that this feature was meant to prevent in the
> first place?

Er, I thought the whole point of this was so that we would know if the
kernel had been 'tainted' by a non-free module that we can't debug.

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