From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.9-ac6
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:16:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B9617BA.F771914E@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NOEJJDACGOHCKNCOGFOMAEAPDLAA.davids@webmaster.com> <E15ebSj-0005ig-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > 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.
How about making the "tainted" field a bitmask ?
eg bit 0 --> non GPL/BSD module
bit 1 --> insmod -f
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-05 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-03 1:50 Linux 2.4.9-ac6 Alan Cox
2001-09-03 2:51 ` Keith Owens
2001-09-03 3:08 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-03 13:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-03 13:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-05 1:51 ` Keith Owens
2001-09-05 3:30 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 3:50 ` Keith Owens
2001-09-05 5:16 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 5:39 ` Alan Shutko
2001-09-05 18:46 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 5:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-05 5:56 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-09-05 7:03 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 7:09 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 9:50 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-05 9:57 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 12:50 ` christophe barbé
2001-09-05 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-05 13:14 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-05 13:23 ` christophe barbé
2001-09-05 14:05 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-09-05 7:18 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-09-05 7:19 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 9:41 ` Justin Guyett
2001-09-05 9:53 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 10:21 ` Justin Guyett
2001-09-05 11:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-05 18:46 ` David Schwartz
2001-09-05 18:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-05 22:09 ` Linux 2.4.9-ac6 (really about tainting) David Schwartz
2001-09-05 12:07 ` Linux 2.4.9-ac6 Alan Cox
2001-09-05 12:16 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2001-09-05 12:23 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-05 14:36 Thomas Foerster
2001-09-06 19:23 ` Camiel Vanderhoeven
2001-09-06 20:14 ` Alan Cox
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