From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:14:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:13:50 -0400 Received: from fe040.worldonline.dk ([212.54.64.205]:38673 "HELO fe040.worldonline.dk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:13:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3BD356BB.8FB3700D@eisenstein.dk> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:14:04 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.13-pre6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not seem to work as intended Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have not investigated this very closely, but it seems to me that /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not work as intended. I use the nVidia binary-only drivers with my Geforce3 graphics card and if I boot up in runlevel 3 (multi user, no X - on a Slackware 8 box) I check that I have no modules loaded and at this point /proc/sys/kernel/tainted is 0. Then I switch to runlevel 4 (multiuser, with X) and the nVidia drivers load as X is started, I check /proc/sys/kernel/tainted and find that it is still 0. Since the nVidia drivers are binary only and not GPL shouldn't /proc/sys/kernel/tainted be 1 (or at least != 0) ??? I'm currently running 2.4.13-pre6 + Robert Love's preempt patch. -- Best regards, Jesper Juhl juhl@eisenstein.dk