Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:04:40 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting. |
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:58:24PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > I feel a bit dirty overloading TAINT_CRAP (even if the name is apropos). > > Should I introduce a TAINT_OUT_OF_TREE perhaps instead ? > > We could do that in a "generic" way by setting a "in-tree" flag type > thing for everything that is built from within the kernel build, and > then taint if that flag is not found.
what stops an out of tree module from setting that flag ? I guess I need to see the implementation to understand this.
Dave
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