Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Alan Cox
2006-10-24T12:19:06Z

Ar Maw, 2006-10-24 am 15:12 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka Enberg:
> On 10/24/06, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> > The kernel should not depend on a not-in-tree kernel module to
> > taint the kernel. The kernel can and should do that itself.
>
> Agreed. But should the kernel disallow the use of _GPL symbols for
> ndiswrapper? I would say no.

I'd agree providing the attempt to taint function allows an error return
if it did so and it then refuses to load non-GPL windows drivers.