Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:01:32 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting. |
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dave Jones 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 ?
What stops virtualbox developers from renaming the module in every release? That's the same story.
The only fool-proof way of doing is indeed is the GPG-signing thing.
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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