Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

Greg KH
2011-10-25T02:19:09Z

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 <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> ---
> 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 <gregkh@suse.de>