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On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:01:32 +0200, Jiri Kosina said:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dave Jones wrote:

> > 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.

It would also be a second in-tree user for the kernel MPI library code that
somebody posted recently... Just sayin' ;)

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