From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756224Ab1JYCTJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:19:09 -0400 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:41368 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756212Ab1JYCTG (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:19:06 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: svZV1MLQ73MTbSOv29rGDRXEodE25NGfwUb3QSkIv45R 1319509146 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:37:34 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Ben Hutchings Cc: LKML , Dave Jones , Debian kernel maintainers , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree Message-ID: <20111025013734.GA22764@kroah.com> References: <1319461948.31243.31.camel@deadeye> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1319461948.31243.31.camel@deadeye> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 03:12:28PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code > any good. We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this > should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very > little review. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings > --- > Debian has been carrying this for the last few kernel versions. The > recent thread '[RFC] virtualbox tainting.' and discussions at KS suggest > that this might be more generally useful. Wonderful, thanks for pushing this: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman