From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:05:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:05:27 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:45756 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:05:14 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.9-ac6 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:05:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9n5bfc$i7c$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <1257554973.999687013@[169.254.198.40]> <20010905145039.A10655@pc8.lineo.fr> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 999698732 18821 212.34.181.4 (5 Sep 2001 14:05:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:05:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org christophe =?iso-8859-1?Q?barb=E9?= writes: >Would it not be possible with your scheme to package a closed source driver >in an open source wrapper driver and then defeat your tainting technique. >Is it legally possible to copyright a kind of magic number with a copyright >allowing only it's used in open & public source driver ? Congratulations, you've just invented the Microsoft HW Labs certification procedure with module signing. ;-) I can really see it: # insmod This module is not signed with the Linus Torvalds Hardware Certification Labs key. Do you want to a) insert the module anyway (Errors and Crashes from your kernel will not be processed by major kernel developers b) not insert the module c) search for an alternative driver that is open source, download it, compile it and use that instead of d) download a skeleton driver to write your own driver e) install Microsoft Windows XP f) exit -> f # Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20