From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:58:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111024135847.GA26102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319461948.31243.31.camel@deadeye>
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 03:12:28PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
> any good. We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
> should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
> little review.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> ---
> Debian has been carrying this for the last few kernel versions. The
> recent thread '[RFC] virtualbox tainting.' and discussions at KS suggest
> that this might be more generally useful.
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-24 13:12 [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree Ben Hutchings
2011-10-24 13:58 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2011-10-24 14:57 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-10-25 3:56 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-25 9:52 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-25 15:38 ` Nick Bowler
2011-10-25 16:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-25 16:51 ` Nick Bowler
2011-10-25 20:04 ` Greg KH
2011-10-25 20:17 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-25 20:54 ` Greg KH
2011-10-26 13:08 ` Nick Bowler
2011-10-27 1:11 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-27 1:55 ` Dave Jones
2011-10-31 1:30 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-27 5:49 ` Greg KH
2011-10-26 4:16 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-26 6:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-10-25 1:37 ` Greg KH
2011-12-12 21:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-12-12 21:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-12 22:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-12-12 22:49 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-12-13 5:02 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-14 16:20 ` [RFC] modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint John W. Linville
2011-12-14 16:52 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-14 17:39 ` John W. Linville
[not found] ` <87mxatp3ty.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-12-16 4:39 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-19 5:45 ` Rusty Russell
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