Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

Dave Jones
2011-10-06T20:04:45Z

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:58:24PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> > I feel a bit dirty overloading TAINT_CRAP (even if the name is apropos).
> > Should I introduce a TAINT_OUT_OF_TREE perhaps instead ?
>
> We could do that in a "generic" way by setting a "in-tree" flag type
> thing for everything that is built from within the kernel build, and
> then taint if that flag is not found.

what stops an out of tree module from setting that flag ?
I guess I need to see the implementation to understand this.

Dave