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

Steve Lee
2004-04-27T19:02:26Z

Instead of printing module taint messages to the screen, why couldn't
they just
be written to syslog? Then it wouldn't matter if there were several
taint
messages. For example, I know my nVidia driver taints the kernel, I
don't need
to see that message over and over again.

Marc Boucher <marc () linuxant ! com> wrote:

> Actually, we also have no desire nor purpose to prevent tainting. The
purpose
> of the workaround is to avoid repetitive warning messages generated
when
> multiple modules belonging to a single logical "driver" are loaded
(even when
> a module is only probed but not used due to the hardware not being
present).
> Although the issue may sound trivial/harmless to people on the lkml,
it was a
> frequent cause of confusion for the average person.