Re: The tainted message

Ian Molton
2002-04-29T18:09:13Z

Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher Awoke this dragon, who will now respond:

> > Warning: Module %s is not open source, and as such, loading it will
> > make your kernel un-debuggable. Please do not submit bug reports from
> > a kernel with this module loaded, as they will be useless, and likely
> > ignored.
>
> well, that's not the truth: the kernel itself is debuggable, but we
> don't know about the module, and how the module interacts with the
> kernel.

It absolutely IS the truth.

what happens if an errant module clobbers kernel space?