Re: 2.6: problem with module tainting the kernel

Carlos Martin
2005-06-12T15:31:23Z

On 12/06/05, li nux <lnxluv@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks to Randy and everyone who replied.
> Yes, I am using SuSE kernel.
> On building the module it successfully generates
> hello.ko.
> Here is the message I get on doing a insmod of
> hello.ko:
>
> "Jun 12 14:47:56 myhost kernel: hello: unsupported
> module, tainting kernel."
This means that the module is unsupported by SuSE/Novell and
therefore vendor-tainted. It does not mean that the kernel is tainted
in the canonical way. IIRC there are different types of tainting, and
this is just one of them.

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