Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

Rik van Riel
2004-04-29T02:38:45Z

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Ian Stirling wrote:

> > Your new proposed message sounds much clearer to the ordinary mortal and
> > would imho be a significant improvement. Perhaps printing repetitive
> > warnings for identical $MODULE_VENDOR strings could also be avoided,
> > taking care of the redundancy/volume problem as well..
>
> Is this worth 100 or 200 bytes of code though?
> I'd have to say no.

I suspect it'll be worth it. If only because it'll save
the kernel community from people asking things like:

"help, my kernel is tainted! what does it mean and how can I fix it?"

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