From: "Concerned Programmer" <tkhoadfdsaf@hotmail.com>
To: "Pekka Pietikäinen" <pp@netppl.fi>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 06:09:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OE76YXYdLPJYkamGn3V0000d7ce@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011011105016.C28145@devcon.net> <E15rc5o-0002cH-00@the-village.bc.nu> <9q3p56$tqo$1@forge.intermeta.de> <20011011124144.A20659@netppl.fi>
If this is about maintainability, why not just a simple flag stating if
source is available or not.
PS.
Would be even nicer if it defaulted to "true" so my (and others') old
module source code did not now have to be changed just to avoid the annoying
warning from modprobe, though I assume thats out of the question.
> > "included in kernel" could also be a 3rd party binary only driver
> > added by a Linux distribution vendor.
> Or even something like "BSD (unmodified source freely available)", which
> would cover 3rd party drivers as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-11 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-10 8:06 Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10 8:20 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 8:24 ` Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10 8:31 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 13:50 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 13:59 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 14:01 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-10 18:18 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 20:06 ` Concerned Programmer
2001-10-10 20:28 ` Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10 21:28 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 22:03 ` Anthony DeRobertis
2001-10-11 7:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 21:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-10 23:02 ` Juan Quintela
2001-10-10 23:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-10 22:29 ` Rob Landley
2001-10-11 2:48 ` 2.4.11 UDF Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-11 3:26 ` Craig Whitmore
2001-10-11 8:50 ` Tainted Modules Help Notices Andreas Ferber
2001-10-11 9:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-11 9:35 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-10-11 9:41 ` Pekka Pietikäinen
2001-10-11 9:48 ` Syed Mohammad Talha
2001-10-11 10:09 ` Concerned Programmer [this message]
2001-10-11 10:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-11 22:42 ` David Schwartz
2001-10-11 23:40 ` John Alvord
2001-10-12 1:12 ` David Schwartz
2001-10-12 1:32 ` Robert Love
2001-10-11 12:10 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-10 14:13 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 14:18 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 13:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-10 14:06 Bonds, Deanna
2001-10-10 14:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
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