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

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    GJ

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