From: Jesper Juhl <juhl@eisenstein.dk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not seem to work as intended
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:28:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD35A0A.41929F49@eisenstein.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15vS0f-0008Ks-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > 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) ???
>
> It depends if your modutils are current - the work is done in the modutils
> not the kernel
Ahh, thank you for that piece of info.
I use modutils 2.4.6 and I just found a modutils changelog and it seems
that the "tainted" stuff was not added until 2.4.9.
I'll get my modutils up to date.
/Jesper Juhl
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2001-10-21 23:14 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not seem to work as intended Jesper Juhl
2001-10-21 23:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 23:28 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
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