* /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not seem to work as intended
@ 2001-10-21 23:14 Jesper Juhl
2001-10-21 23:28 ` Alan Cox
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From: Jesper Juhl @ 2001-10-21 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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.
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Best regards,
Jesper Juhl
juhl@eisenstein.dk
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* Re: /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not seem to work as intended
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
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From: Alan Cox @ 2001-10-21 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jesper Juhl; +Cc: linux-kernel
> 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
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* Re: /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not seem to work as intended
2001-10-21 23:28 ` Alan Cox
@ 2001-10-21 23:28 ` Jesper Juhl
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From: Jesper Juhl @ 2001-10-21 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alan Cox; +Cc: linux-kernel
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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