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SubjectRe: [PATCH] module: log OOT_MODULE tainting
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Rusty Russell wrote:

> > Follow what we do with other taints and output a message into kernel ring
> > buffer once tainting a kernel because out-of-tree module is being loaded.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
>
> I don't like this, actually. There's a wish among some distributions to
> know that OOT modules are in use in panic messages, but not by others.
> Certainly, there's no reason to warn the user.

I do get your point, but it seems to me that we are at least not
consistent here. Why would we then log messages in cases of
TAINT_FORCED_MODULE for example? The user knows that he has forced the
module load, right?

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs


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