From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:49:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:49:19 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:61704 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:49:13 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.9-ac5 To: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:52:30 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), laughing@shared-source.org (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <9293.999222514@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> from "Keith Owens" at Aug 31, 2001 11:48:34 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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