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 14:46:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:46:05 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:29108 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:45:54 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Alan Cox" Cc: Subject: RE: Linux 2.4.9-ac6 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:46:12 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Unfortunately I get so many bug reports caused by the nvidia modules and > people lying when asked if they have them loaded that some kind of action > has to occur, otherwise I'm going to have to stop reading bug reports from > anyone I don't know personally. > > I am not prepared to be an unpaid Nvidia support goon. > > Alan Well, now you have the same problem everyone else has with open source. You can't protect yourself from the user by changing the source code because the user has the source code. In any event, coding Linux to prevent the user from doing something he wants to do, no matter how wrong you think that something is, just doesn't feel right. I guess it's just sad that this is the issue. What stops someone from editing the taint lines out of the bug report? Are you going to have the kernel checksum them? *sigh* DS