From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 08:04:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 08:04:09 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:29188 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 08:03:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.9-ac6 To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:07:21 +0100 (BST) Cc: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens), andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "David Schwartz" at Sep 04, 2001 08:30:42 PM 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 > based upon whether you have the source or not. What should logically taint > the kernel are modules that weren't compiled for that exact kernel version > or are otherwise mismatched. Setting a flag for the insmod -f required case as well is an extremely good idea. This is entirely about making information available nothing else and your suggestion there is a good one. Alan