Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23T11:07:14Z

--- Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> wrote:

> Next question - what version of ndiswrapper started voluntary tainting (or
> has
> it always?)
>
> That is to say, are there versions of ndiswrapper floating around out there
> in
> the ether capable of building against 2.6.19-rc* that don't voluntarily
> add_taint()? (I'm guessing the answer is 'no', but the answer is possibly
> important to consider)

Since version 1.0, ndiswrapper has been tainting kernel when a driver is
loaded. Version 1.0 is quite old (circa Jan 2005) and won't build with any
recent kernels.

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