Messages in this thread | | | From | "Steve Lee" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:03:01 -0500 |
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Instead of printing module taint messages to the screen, why couldn't they just be written to syslog? Then it wouldn't matter if there were several taint messages. For example, I know my nVidia driver taints the kernel, I don't need to see that message over and over again.
Marc Boucher <marc () linuxant ! com> wrote:
> Actually, we also have no desire nor purpose to prevent tainting. The purpose > of the workaround is to avoid repetitive warning messages generated when > multiple modules belonging to a single logical "driver" are loaded (even when > a module is only probed but not used due to the hardware not being present). > Although the issue may sound trivial/harmless to people on the lkml, it was a > frequent cause of confusion for the average person.
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