From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:41:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161600064.19388.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061023054119.75745.qmail@web32415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Ar Sul, 2006-10-22 am 22:41 -0700, ysgrifennodd Giridhar Pemmasani:
> Note that when a driver is loaded, ndiswrapper does taint the kernel (to be
> more accurate, it should check if the driver being loaded is GPL or not, but
> that is not done).
However by then it has already dynamically linked with explicit GPLONLY
symbols so it cannot then load a binary windows driver but should unload
itself or refuse to load anything but the GPL ndis drivers (of which
afaik only one exists), and even then they expect an environment
incompatible with the Linux kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-23 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 5:41 incorrect taint of ndiswrapper Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23 5:53 ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-23 6:25 ` Chase Venters
2006-10-23 6:41 ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23 6:48 ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-23 7:12 ` Chase Venters
2006-10-23 11:07 ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23 9:10 ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-23 9:39 ` Michal Schmidt
2006-10-23 8:24 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-10-23 10:41 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-23 11:35 ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23 13:00 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-24 2:43 ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-24 3:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-24 12:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-24 12:22 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-24 14:07 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-23 18:36 ` Zan Lynx
2006-10-24 11:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-25 20:11 Pavel Roskin
2006-10-25 20:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-25 20:40 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-25 21:04 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-25 21:06 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-25 21:33 ` David Weinehall
2006-10-25 22:02 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-25 22:54 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-25 22:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26 3:23 ` David Weinehall
2006-10-26 13:13 ` Thierry Vignaud
2006-10-26 13:21 ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-26 3:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-26 9:03 ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-26 10:39 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26 12:21 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-10-26 12:59 ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-26 14:41 ` Al Viro
2006-10-26 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26 16:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 16:26 ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-27 14:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-27 15:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 19:19 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-26 21:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-26 22:29 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-26 23:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-26 23:36 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-10-27 0:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-26 23:47 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-27 12:52 ` Roland Kuhn
2006-10-27 15:53 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-27 4:32 ` Florin Malita
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