From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751958Ab1LPKD7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:03:59 -0500 Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:4523 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751295Ab1LPKDu (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:03:50 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: B55A25B1-5D7D-41F8-BC53-C57E7AD3C201 Message-ID: <4EEB177A.603@broadcom.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:03:38 +0100 From: "Arend van Spriel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel Baluta" cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: unexpected taint message References: <4EEB0EFC.5000302@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4a1pre OpenPGP: id=B5E1A116 X-WSS-ID: 62F5C6B55045175317-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/16/2011 10:29 AM, Daniel Baluta wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> To whoever may know, >> >> Upon loading our driver module I get the following message: >> >> kernel: [ 344.805106] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint >> >> What exactly are the criteria for tainting? Our driver locking strategy >> is something we want to refactor and having lock debugging during that >> transition may be a life safer. > > Is your driver GPL licensed? > > thanks, > Daniel. > Not entirely: MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); Gr. AvS