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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license
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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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