Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:47:02 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] module: log OOT_MODULE tainting |
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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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