Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:03:57 +0100 | From | Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license |
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Willy Tarreau wrote:
>What would be smarter would be to try to understand why they do this. At >the moment, it seems to me that their only problem is to taint the kernel. >Why ? I don't this that any old modutils/module-utils found in any distros >don't load properly such modules. So perhaps they only want not to taint >the kernel because it appears dirty to their customers who will not receive >any more support from LKML. So perhaps what we really need is to add a new >MODULE_SUPPORT field stating where to get support from in case of bugs, >oopses or panics on a tainted kernel. Thus, the module author would be able >to insert something such as "support_XXX@author.com" which will be displayed >on each oops/panic/etc... Even if this is a long list because the customer >uses connexant, nvidia, checkpoint and I don't know what, at least he will >get 3 email addresses for his support. And it might reassure these authors >to know that the customer will ask them before asking us with our automatic >replies "unload your binary modules...". > >Anyway it now seems like strings will have to be matched on their lenghts... > > And they will put linux-kernek@vger.kernel(.org) there :-) You never know...
-- GJ
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