From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Sean Richards <fuzzylr@icloud.com>
Cc: "Richards, Sean" <srichards@gpo.gov>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"ft86drifter@cox.net" <ft86drifter@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Wireless driver issue
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:01:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55CBC237.7000006@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6FF30372-1A87-41BB-9BFC-1E92FE9FC51C@icloud.com>
On 08/12/2015 03:51 PM, Sean Richards wrote:
>
> I was wondering if you could answer one more question for me. Would you mind expanding on this comment??
>
> It will taint your kernel
>
> I am curious what you mean by that.
When you load a driver that is not open source with the corresponding GPL
license, a flag in the kernel is set in the kernel. If a kernel oops is later
triggered, the dump shows that the kernel is so tainted. No kernel developer
will look at that report until you reproduce it without loading the offending
driver.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-12 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-12 17:05 Wireless driver issue Richards, Sean
2015-08-12 17:56 ` Larry Finger
2015-08-12 19:15 ` Richards, Sean
2015-08-12 20:42 ` Larry Finger
[not found] ` <3wfi1r0051B0Yuh01wiv6t@mac.com>
2015-08-12 20:51 ` Sean Richards
2015-08-12 22:01 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2015-08-12 22:14 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-08-13 14:17 ` Richards, Sean
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