From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
To: Pawan Deepika <pawan_deepika@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'tainting kernel' problem in linux-2.4.18
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:16:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EAEF9BE.5060805@inet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030429215318.27252.qmail@web41608.mail.yahoo.com>
Pawan Deepika wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying LKM with linux-2.4.18. I have a problem
> here. When I load the module using 'insmod' command,
> module gets loaded but I get following error
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> /sbin/insmod ./hello.o
> Warning: loading ./hello.o will taint the kernel: no
> license
> See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for
> information about tainted modules
> Module hello loaded, with warnings
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Can anyone tell me why I am getting this problem and
> what is the impact of this error while module is
> running in kernel.
Read the url provided in the error message.
If that is not enough, perhaps this one will help:
http://lwn.net/2001/0906/kernel.php3
You may want to try kernel-newbies instead since this would be more
on-topic there.
HTH,
Eli
--------------------. "If it ain't broke now,
Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-29 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-29 21:53 Pawan Deepika
2003-04-29 22:16 ` Eli Carter [this message]
2003-04-29 22:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-29 22:55 ` Pawan Deepika
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