From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:00:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:00:27 -0400 Received: from unused ([12.150.234.220]:35071 "EHLO one.isilinux.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:00:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3BAF74B8.6070102@interactivesi.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:00:24 -0500 From: Timur Tabi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Owens CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tainting kernels for non-GPL or forced modules In-Reply-To: <27975.1001164529@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Keith Owens wrote: > I have started work on the patch for /proc/sys/kernel/tainted with the > corresponding modutils and ksymoops changes. insmod of a non-GPL > module ORs /proc/sys/kernel/tainted with 1, insmod -f ORs with 2. Where can I find more information about this? The word "tainted" doesn't appear in my kernel source code (I guess 2.4.2 is too old), and a search on google didn't reveal anything. The reason I ask is because I'm working on a closed-source (unfortunately) driver for Linux, and I'd really like to make it behave as well as possible.