Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz
2004-04-27T07:04:13Z

Willy Tarreau wrote:

>What would be smarter would be to try to understand why they do this. At
>the moment, it seems to me that their only problem is to taint the kernel.
>Why ? I don't this that any old modutils/module-utils found in any distros
>don't load properly such modules. So perhaps they only want not to taint
>the kernel because it appears dirty to their customers who will not receive
>any more support from LKML. So perhaps what we really need is to add a new
>MODULE_SUPPORT field stating where to get support from in case of bugs,
>oopses or panics on a tainted kernel. Thus, the module author would be able
>to insert something such as "support_XXX@author.com" which will be displayed
>on each oops/panic/etc... Even if this is a long list because the customer
>uses connexant, nvidia, checkpoint and I don't know what, at least he will
>get 3 email addresses for his support. And it might reassure these authors
>to know that the customer will ask them before asking us with our automatic
>replies "unload your binary modules...".
>
>Anyway it now seems like strings will have to be matched on their lenghts...
>
>
And they will put linux-kernek@vger.kernel(.org) there :-)
You never know...

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GJ