Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-23T05:56:01Z

Hello,

Have got the same problem. I just add the following:

1) dmesg claims __create_workqueue and __destroy_workqueue are undefined
(kernel syms)
2) I've checked out System.map and they're of course present
3) no problem under 2.6.18.1
4) from ndiswrapper-1.15 to ndiswrapper-1.26

By the way, i would like so much if someone explain me why, since
2.6.18, on my Acer Laptop i had to add irqpoll to correctly boot (had
already to use acpi=noirq) and still have strange errors on DVD
detection at boot which strangely has not any consequence later.
The problem is there since 2.6.18.

Thanks,

Gianluca

Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:

>It seems that the kernel module loader taints ndiswrapper module as
>proprietary, but it is not - it is fully GPL: see
>http://directory.fsf.org/sysadmin/hookup/ndiswrapper.html
>
>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).
>
>Thanks,
>Giri
>
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