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From: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: li nux <lnxluv@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6: problem with module tainting the kernel
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:18:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050610201812.037b6a01.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050610152450.82261.qmail@web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:24:50 -0700 (PDT) li nux wrote:

| In 2.6 kernels how to assure that on inserting our own
| module, it doesn't throw the warning:
| 
| "unsupported module, tainting kernel"

That string is not in the kernel source code that I can see.
Be more precise, please.


| what tainting depends on apart from the license string ?

load:

- CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is set but some symbol does not have
  version info

- a license that is not GPL-compatible

- no version magic info for the module

unload:

- forcefully unloading a module

---
~Randy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-11  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-10 15:24 li nux
2005-06-10 15:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-11  3:11   ` randy_dunlap
2005-06-11  3:18 ` randy_dunlap [this message]
2005-06-12  9:25   ` li nux
2005-06-12 15:31     ` Carlos Martin
2005-06-11 21:42 ` Carsten Otte

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