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

Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-04-27T19:16:35Z

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Jorge Bernal (Koke) wrote:
> On Martes, 27 de Abril de 2004 20:54, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:53:39 +0200, Grzegorz Kulewski said:
> > > Maybe kernel should display warning only once per given licence or even
> > > once per boot (who needs warning about tainting tainted kernel?)
> >
> > If your kernel is tainted by 3 different modules, it saves you 2 reboots
> > when trying to replicate a problem with an untainted kernel.
> >
>
> what about something like a /proc/tainted list of modules?

I think that /proc/tainted would be better than spamming logs after each
load of tainted module...
But probably modules should not be removed from /proc/tainted on unloading
(to prevent from "un-tainting" the kernel by "clever" users).

Grzegorz Kulewski