From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
laughing@shared-source.org (Alan Cox),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.9-ac5
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:52:30 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15coik-0003Ax-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9293.999222514@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> from "Keith Owens" at Aug 31, 2001 11:48:34 AM
> Solution: /proc/sys/kernel/tainted. Set to 0 on boot, set to 1 by
> insmod when it finds a non-GPL module, printed by panic, extracted by
> ksymoops. Any load of a proprietary module taints the kernel, even if
> it is later removed. The kernel code for that sysctl only allows taint
> to be set, not to be cleared.
That would certainly work well enough.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-31 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-31 0:33 Alan Cox
2001-08-31 1:11 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-31 1:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-31 1:48 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-31 5:43 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-08-31 14:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-31 17:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-08-31 13:52 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-08-31 3:58 ` Robert Love
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